Quote of Marcus Aurelius - Soon you will have forgotten the...
Biography - Marcus Aurelius:
(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) Emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher.
Born: 121 - Died: 180
Period:
2nd century
Place of birth: Italy
Born: 121 - Died: 180
Period:
2nd century
Place of birth: Italy
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
Note
Book VII, 21
Quote source: Meditations
Translation
(French, German, Latin)
Instat tempus, quo tu omnium oblitus eris: instat, quo omnes tui obliti erunt.
See also...
Quotes for: Forgetting
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
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