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Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE

Meditations 9.19 — Marcus Aurelius

Translation by George Long (1862)

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.19

All things are changing: and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction, and the whole universe too.
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Everything is in constant change, you included, and so is the whole universe. Keeping this in mind loosens your hold on things that were never going to stay the same.

Older wording

“mutation”
— constant change

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  • Change and impermanence
  • Acceptance and fate

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.19, tr. George Long (1862)