Consider whence each thing is come, and of what it consists, + and into what it changes, and what kind of a thing it will be when it has changed, and that it will sustain no harm.
In his personal reflections, Marcus Aurelius instructs on a method of contemplation regarding the origin, composition, and transformation of things.
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