Book VII · 19
Through the universal substance as through a furious torrent all bodies are carried, being by their nature united with and co-operating with the whole, as the parts of our body with one another. How many a Chrysippus, how many a Socrates, how many an Epictetus has time already swallowed up! And let the same thought occur to thee with reference to every man and thing.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VII.19. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.