Meditation 7.10-12
Marcus AureliusMeditationsBook 7.10
10. Everything material vanishes very swiftly in the Universal Substance, every cause is very swiftly taken up into the Universal Reason, and the memorial of everything is very swiftly buried in eternity.
11. For a reasonable creature the same act is according to Nature and according to Reason.
12. Upright, or held upright.