The letter continues with reflections on the nature of death, 'more to… — Meditations

Meditations — Marcus Aurelius

The letter continues with reflections on the nature of death, 'more to be rejoiced at than bewailed, the younger one dies,' and an arraignment of Providence not without dignity, wrung from him as it were by this last culminating misfortune. It concludes with a summing-up of his life in protest against the blow which has fallen on his grey head.

Place: ¶563
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