Book IV.3
All is ephemeral, both the rememberer and the remembered.
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From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Posthumous fame is empty; those who remember will themselves die, and the universe forgets all.
Book IV.33
Words once familiar are now archaic; even great names like Camillus and Scipio are echoes.
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What is even an eternal remembrance? Wholly vanity.
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