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Meditations XII.31
What dost thou ask for? Continued existence? But what of sensation? Of desire? Of growth? Of the use of speech? The exercise of thought? Which of these, thinkest thou, is a thing to long for? But if these things are each and all of no account, address thyself to a final endeavour to follow Reason and to follow God.64 But it militates against this to prize such things, and to grieve if death comes to deprive us of them.
- 64.See vii. 31; xii. 27.