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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 .

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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