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Was Marcus Aurelius wrong about lasting fame?
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Was Marcus Aurelius wrong about lasting fame?

Meditations is a book that was meant to be forgotten.

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Carl Beijer
Dec 01, 2024
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Returning to Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations this morning, and I always get a little chuckle after passages like this:


Little too, is the longest fame to come - dependant as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less one long dead and gone.

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