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"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
- Marcus Aurelius
"He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live."
- Marcus Aurelius
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
- Marcus Aurelius
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