Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_vii: Whatsoever is material, doth soon vanish away into the common substance of th...

Whatsoever is material, doth soon vanish away into the common substance of the whole; and whatsoever is formal, or, whatsoever doth animate that which is material, is soon resumed into the common reason of the whole; and the fame and memory of anything, is soon swallowed up by the general age and duration of the whole.