“Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance”

— Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

X, 17
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.

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Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

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