Meditations XII.7

Reflect on the condition of body and soul befitting a man when overtaken by death, on the shortness of life,¹⁵ on the yawning gulf¹⁶ of the past and of the time to come, on the impotence of all matter.

• 15.See iv. 26.
• 16.See iv. 50; v. 23; xii. 32.