Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? How can any action be accomplished without change? Don't you see? Your own transformation is just as necessary to nature as theirs.
— Marcus Aurelius Ancient

Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor

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Meditations, Book 7, Section 18

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c. 161-180 AD

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