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. (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.

Marcus Aurelius

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