Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 7.25 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.25
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may be ever new.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.25, tr. George Long (1862)
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In plain English
AI-written notesNature is always about to change everything you see and rebuild it into something else, so that the world stays fresh. Change is simply how the universe renews itself.
Older wording
- “substance”
- — the matter the world is made of
Themes and situations
- Change and impermanence
- Nature and the cosmos
- Acceptance and fate
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