Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 6.37 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.37
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.37, tr. George Long (1862)
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In plain English
AI-written notesEverything is of one kind and one pattern, so anyone who has looked closely at the present has effectively seen everything that ever was or will be.
Older wording
- “kin”
- — related, of the same family
Themes and situations
- Time and the present
- Nature and the cosmos
- Change and impermanence
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