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Quote by MĂĄrai SĂĄndor
English (Source)
Marcus Aurelius says that by the age of forty, a man in whom a spark of reason shines, has experienced and knows everything that happened to people in the time before him, and everything that can happen in the time that follows. The details may be varied and different, but the basic experience - the common basic experience of all human lives - actually happens to all people in forty years. He has lived the passions, experienced the constancy of natural laws, and knows with absolute certainty that he is mortal. Neither Caesar, nor Antonius, nor Marcus Aurelius knew more, and man in time will never know more about himself and the world. Everything else is just repetition.