MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations. Tr. George LONG, Great Books of the Western World Vol. 11, Encyclopaedia Britannica.

It [the rational soul] extends itself into the infinity of time, and embraces and comprehends the periodical renovation of all things, and it comprehends that thse who come after us will see nothing new, nor have those before us seen anything more... [Book 11, Great Books edition p. 286.]