Dissolution As a stream so are all things belonging to the body as a dream so are all that belong unto the soul Our life is a warfare and a mere pilgrimage Only one thing preserves:
Philosophy- never to do anything either rashly or feignedly or hypocritically depend on yourself your own proper actions all things embrace and above all calmly cheerfully expect death, the resolution of those Elements of which every creature is composed that dissolution and alteration which is so common unto all why should it be feared by any? Is not this according to nature? Nothing that is according to Nature can be evil. Meditations II, 17(/15). M. Casaubon, Trans. 1635 W.M.D Rouse, Trans. 1906