Meditations XII.32

How tiny a fragment of the boundless abyss of Time has been appointed to each man!⁶⁵ For in a moment it is lost in eternity. And how tiny a part of the Universal Substance!⁶⁶ How tiny of the Universal Soul! And on how tiny a clod of the whole Earth dost thou crawl! Keeping all these things in mind, think nothing of moment save to do what thy nature leads thee to do, and to bear what the Universal Nature brings thee.⁶⁷

• 65.See iv. 50; v. 24.
• 66.Epictetus’s Discourses i. 12 § 26: οὐκ οἶσθα ἡλίκον μέρος εἶ πρὸς τὰ ὄντα;

  Epictetus’s Greek, in translation: “do you not know how small a part you are compared with the whole?”

• 67.See iii. 4.