The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now moulds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else; and each of these things subsists for a very short time.
Marcus Aurelius describes the universal nature's continuous transformation of substance into various forms, each existing briefly.
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What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!
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!
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