Marcus Aurelius
Meditations 10.18
Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.18, translated by George Long
Regarding attentively every existing thing reflect that it is already disintegrating and changing, and as it were in a state of decomposition and dispersion, or that everything is by nature made but to die.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.18, translated by C. R. Haines