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Aurelius, Meditations 8.23: By one action judge of the rest: this bathing which usually takes up so much ...
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By one action judge of the rest: this bathing which usually takes up so much of our time, what is it? Oil, sweat, filth; or the sordes of the body: an excrementitious viscosity, the excrements of oil and other ointments used about the body, and mixed with the sordes of the body: all base and loathsome. And such almost is every part of our life; and every worldly object.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_08_xxiii
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