Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 11.17 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.17
Consider whence each thing is come, and of what it consists, and into what it changes, and what kind of a thing it will be when it has changed, and that it will sustain no harm.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.17, tr. George Long (1862)
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AI-written notesTo understand anything, trace where it came from, what it is made of and what it will turn into, and recognise that the change does it no harm.
Themes and situations
- Change and impermanence
- Judgements and impressions
- Death and mortality
- Acceptance and fate
- Fear of death
- Bereavement
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