M. Aur. Med. 9.36

Meditations 9.36

Author
Marcus Aurelius
Translator
George Long

Meditations

9.36

Marcus Aurelius

translated by George Long

36The rottenness of the matter which is the substance of everything! water, dust, bones, filth: or again, marble rocks, the callosities of the earth; and gold and silver, the sediments; and garments, only bits of hair; and purple dye, blood; and everything else is of the same kind. And that which is of the nature of breath is also another thing of the same kind, changing from this to that.