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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For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.
That which is from fortune is not separated from nature or without an interweaving and involution with the things which are ordered by providence.
All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
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