Marcus Aurelius: “Have I done something for the general interest?”

How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!

There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.

Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.

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.