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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

XXXII. What a subject, and what a course of life is it,

that thou doest so much desire to be rid of. For all these things,

what are they, but fit objects for an understanding, that beholdeth

everything according to its true nature, to exercise itself upon?

Be patient, therefore, until that (as a strong stomach that turns

all things into his own nature; and as a great fire that turneth

in flame and light, whatsoever thou doest cast into it) thou have

made these things also familiar, and as it were natural unto thee.