The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
Marcus Aurelius defines the secure and virtuous life as one dedicated to thorough examination, justice, and truthfulness.
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But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!
What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
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