Meditations 4:46

Remember Heraclitus: "When earth dies, it becomes water; water, air; air, fire; and back to the beginning."

"Those who have forgotten where the road leads."

"They are at odds with what is all around them"—the alldirecting logos. And "they find alien what they meet with every day."

"Our words and actions should not be like those of sleepers" (for we act and speak in dreams as well) "or of children copying their parents"—doing and saying only what we have been told.