On the recordJanuary 1, 175
There is nothing new: all things are both familiar and short-lived.
Said by
Marcus Aurelius
Source
gutenberg.orgMarcus Aurelius: “There is nothing new: all things are both familiar and short-lived.”
Editor's note · Context
In his personal reflections, Marcus Aurelius observes the unchanging and transient nature of all phenomena.
Share
More from Marcus Aurelius
Jan 1, 175
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.
Jan 1, 175
The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
Jan 1, 175
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!
Other voices in this conversation
