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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

XV. It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat

in thee, better and more divine than either thy passions,

or thy sensual appetites and affections. What is now the object

of my mind, is it fear, or suspicion, or lust, or any such thing?

To do nothing rashly without some certain end; let that be thy

first care. The next, to have no other end than the common good.

For, alas! yet a little while, and thou art no more:

no more will any, either of those things that now thou seest,

or of those men that now are living, be any more. For all things

are by nature appointed soon to be changed, turned, and corrupted,

that other things might succced in their room.