Gratias tibi ago Marce Aureli.
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Me watching someone decline presumably correctly (I could not decline Latin if my life depended on it):
For most part they're all about memorisation — not hard, just annoying and laborious. I had professors drilling it in uni times, but flashcards also work wonders.
The pain is in the details. Like, if the nominative in -us the vocative is usually -e, but if it's -ius you don't get -ie, you get -ī instead (as in ~~Aurēlie~~ Aurēlī). Or the -e disappearing from stuff like pater/patrem.
Smartest thing he ever said
Nah. Marcus Aurelius said plenty good stuff. Stuff like this:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they're just, they won't care how devout you've been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you shouldn't want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you'll be gone, but you'll have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
I wish I could quote this in the original, but he wrote it in Greek instead of Latin. Don't ask me why.
Apparently Greek was considered the thing to be doing at the time, like how we used to use Latin and French for all our fancy learnings.
Thank you Marcus Aurelius, you're our only hope.