You have existed as a part. You shall disappear in that which produced you; but rather you shall be received back into its seminal principle by transmutation.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 4.14 (tr Long)
As I write this, just as our new millennium has begun, people who describe themselves as “Modern” Stoics will bicker…
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