stoic meditation on death

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Key Takeaway: 'You could leave life right now.

'You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.'. • Remembering death can return life to itself. • Most fear grows in imagination before reality.

As the Stoic philosophers — particularly Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations and Seneca in his Letters — wrote, 'You could leave life right now.

— Oriens
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