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Aurelius, Meditations 7.17: The nature of the universe, of the common substance of all things as it were ...
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The nature of the universe, of the common substance of all things as it were of so much wax hath now perchance formed a horse; and then, destroying that figure, hath new tempered and fashioned the matter of it into the form and substance of a tree: then that again into the form and substance of a man: and then that again into some other. Now every one of these doth subsist but for a very little while. As for dissolution, if it be no grievous thing to the chest or trunk, to be joined together; why should it be more grievous to be put asunder?
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_07_xvii
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