For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of the things which take place now; accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
Marcus Aurelius asserts the unchanging patterns of human life, suggesting that extensive observation reveals universal truths.
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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.
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.
But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
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