Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things 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 (xii. 23).
Marcus Aurelius reflects on the universal nature's continuous process of transformation and renewal, ensuring the world remains ever new.
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Either there is a fatal necessity and invincible order, or a kind providence, or a confusion without a purpose and without a director (iv. 27).
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being.
For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.
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