Final Summations (Book XII)

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The closing book contains some of the most celebrated passages on departing life with equanimity, like an actor dismissed by the playwright.
Book XII.36

Famous closing: 'Pass on then, satisfied, for he who lets thee go is satisfied' — life as a play whose director releases you.

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Book XII.1

Opens the final book with the immediacy of virtue.

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Book XII.17

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

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