Marcus Aurelius — "Consider the past—a change of empires, and you may foresee the future. For it wi…"

Consider the past—a change of empires, and you may foresee the future. For it will be the same kind of thing, and it is impossible for things to deviate from the present order: wherefore to contemplate life for forty years is the same as to contemplate it for ten thousand years. For what more wilt thou see?
Marcus Aurelius — Marcus Aurelius Ancient · Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor

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Meditations, Book 7, Section 59

Date: c. 161-180 AD

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