Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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- Meditations (second century), George Long translation (1862); Exact wording and attribution checked. Stoic reflections on change, mortality, and the present moment.
- Meditations (second century), George Long translation (1862)
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