21. Consider that before long you will be nobody and nowhere, nor will any of the things exist which you now see nor any of those who are now living.
For all things are formed by nature to change and be turned and to perish in order that other things in continuous succession may exist.
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Twelve
Chapter Subtitle: All those things at which you wish to arrive by a circuitous road, you canst have now, if you dost not refuse them to yourself
Location: Chapter 12, Section 21
Content:
21. Consider that before long you will be nobody and nowhere, nor will any of the things exist which you now see nor any of those who are now living.
For all things are formed by nature to change and be turned and to perish in order that other things in continuous succession may exist.