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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Quotes: You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
         

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.


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You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
         



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