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Book IV · 15

Many grains of frankincense on the same altar: one falls before, another falls after; but it makes no difference.

Many little pellets of frankincense fall upon the same altar, some are cast on it sooner, some later: but it makes no difference.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.15. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.