V. As generation is, so also death, a secret of nature's wisdom: a mix… — Meditations

Meditations — Marcus Aurelius

V. As generation is, so also death, a secret of nature's wisdom: a mixture of elements, resolved into the same elements again, a thing surely which no man ought to be ashamed of: in a series of other fatal events and consequences, which a rational creature is subject unto, not improper or incongruous, nor contrary to the natural and proper constitution of man himself.

Place: ¶109
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