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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

IX. In the mind that is once truly disciplined and purged, thou canst

not find anything, either foul or impure, or as it were festered:

nothing that is either servile, or affected: no partial tie;

no malicious averseness; nothing obnoxious; nothing concealed.

The life of such an one, death can never surprise as imperfect;

as of an actor, that should die before he had ended, or the play

itself were at an end, a man might speak.