The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed.
Marcus Aurelius reminds himself of the constant flux of all things, urging reflection on the many changes already experienced.
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Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.
How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!
But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
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