The Universal Nature out of the Universal Substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else; and each of these things subsists for a very short time.
But it is no hardship for the vessel to be broken up, just as there was none in its being fastened together.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.23
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