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Book VI · 29

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

It is a disgrace for the soul to be the first to succumb in that life in which the body does not succumb.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VI.29. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.