"That which had grown from the earth, to……" — Marcus Aurelius

"That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements."

— Marcus Aurelius

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