Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII, 49
“Thou mayest foresee… the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form”
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Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
VII, 49
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Context: Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
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