Meditations 4.14

Thou hast existed as a part. Thou shalt disappear in that which produced thee; but rather thou shalt be received back into its seminal principle by transmutation.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.14, translated by George Long

Thou hast subsisted as part of the Whole. Thou shalt vanish into that which begat thee, or rather thou shalt be taken again into its Seminal Reason by a process of change.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.14, translated by C. R. Haines