Meditation 10.19-20
Marcus AureliusMeditationsBook 10.19
19. What creatures they are; they eat, sleep, copulate, relieve nature, and so on; then what are they like as rulers, imperious or angry and fault-finding to excess; yet but yesterday how many masters were they slaving for and to what purpose, and to-morrow they will be in a like condition.
20. Each man's benefit is what Universal Nature brings to each, and it is his benefit precisely at the time she brings it.