Plain
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

Think about how many different things happen in each of us at any moment — things in our bodies and our minds. When you realize this, you won't be surprised that many more things, or really all things, can exist at the same time in that one great whole we call the world.

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Calm Your Mind Human Nature
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

Consider how many different things, whether they concern our bodies, or our souls, in a moment of time come to pass in every one of us, and so thou wilt not wonder if many more things or rather all things that are done, can at one time subsist, and coexist in that both one and general, which we call the world.

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Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

Alexander the Great and his mule handler both came to the same end when they died. Either they both returned to the universal reason that creates all things, or they both scattered into atoms the same way.

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Death & Mortality
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

Alexander of Macedon, and he that dressed his mules, when once dead both came to one. For either they were both resumed into those original rational essences from whence all things in the world are propagated; or both after one fashion were scattered into atoms.

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