Marcus Aurelius: Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance , and consider that all individual things as to subs

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance , and consid — Marcus Aurelius

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance , and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

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