Marcus Aurelius: If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like — Marcus Aurelius

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

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I will take my corporal oath on it. — Miguel de Cervantes
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