He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
In his private writings, Marcus Aurelius asserts that understanding the present reveals the entirety of existence, past and future, due to the unity of all things.
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In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.
Besides this, he honored those who were true philosophers, and he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was he easily led by them.
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being.
That which is from fortune is not separated from nature or without an interweaving and involution with the things which are ordered by providence.
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