For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death. - Cicero

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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC), infrequently known by the anglicized name Tully in the Middle Ages and after, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

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