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And I will get right into today's meditation, which will be meditation 12 from book two.

That meditation reads as follows. How quickly all things disappear.

In the universe, the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them. What is the nature

of all sensible things, and particularly those which attract with the bait of pleasure or

terrified by pain, or are noised abroad by

vapory fame, how worthless, how contemptible, how sordid and perishable, and dead they are.

All this, it is part of the intellectual faculty to observe, to observe also to whom these opinions and voices give reputation, what death is,

and the fact that if a man looks at it in itself, and by the abstractive power of reflection,

resolves into their parts all the things which present themselves to the imagination in it,

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