Meditations VIII.21

Turn it¹⁵ inside out and see what it is like, what it comes to be when old, when sickly, when carrion. They endure but for a season, both praiser and praised, rememberer and remembered.¹⁶ All this too in a tiny corner of this continent, and not even there are all in accord, no nor a man with himself; and the whole earth is itself a point.¹⁷

• 15.That is, the body.
• 16.See iii. 10; iv. 3, § 3.
• 17.See iv. 3, § 3; vi. 36.