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mk  ·  2492 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 21, 2017

I'll be forgotten, and I don't much care how long it takes.

I recently read the Meditations, and about 50% of it is Aurelius reminding himself that he will be forgotten, and that postmortem remembrance is a pretty stupid thing to waste the present on.

    History is change and change is almost always cataclysmic for someone.

He pretty much says that too.





kleinbl00  ·  2492 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No one ever called Marcus Aurelius dumb.