Meditations 12.34

This reflection is most adapted to move us to contempt of death, that even those who think pleasure to be a good and pain an evil still have despised it.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.34, translated by George Long

Most efficacious in instilling a contempt for death is the fact that those who count pleasure a good and pain an evil have nevertheless contemned it.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.34, translated by C. R. Haines