A third in a manner does not even know what he has done, but he is like a vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit.
In his reflections on giving, Marcus Aurelius describes the ideal benefactor as one who gives selflessly, like a vine producing fruit without expectation.
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What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
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