Through the universal substance as through a furious torrent all bodies are carried, being by their nature united with and co-operating with the whole, as the parts of our body with one another.
Marcus Aurelius describes the continuous flow of all physical forms within the universal substance, emphasizing their natural unity and cooperation.
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Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.
For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.
What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.
Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual occupations.
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