Marcus Aurelius on death
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) approaches death within Stoicism. He urged attention to what lies within one's agency, acceptance of nature's order, and justice toward fellow rational beings. Systematically, the teaching links ethics, self-discipline, cosmopolitanism into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets death most directly—useful for searches such as “marcus aurelius quotes on death.”
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