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Aurelius, Meditations 7.15: Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were n...
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Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And what is it, that is more pleasing and more familiar to the nature of the universe? How couldst thou thyself use thy ordinary hot baths, should not the wood that heateth them first be changed? How couldst thou receive any nourishment from those things that thou hast eaten, if they should not be changed? Can anything else almost (that is useful and profitable) be brought to pass without change? How then dost not thou perceive, that for thee also, by death, to come to change, is a thing of the very same nature, and as necessary for the nature of the universe?
- same section → Aurelius, Meditations 9.4: He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself.
- same section → Aurelius, Meditations 5.10: Thou must comfort thyself in the expectation of thy natural dissolution, and ...
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