Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.
In his personal reflections, Marcus observes the inherent impermanence and eventual dissolution of all natural phenomena.
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But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.
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 if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
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