Marcus Aurelius: “Consider the past,--such great changes of political supremacies; thou mayest foresee also the things which will be.”

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?

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.

But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.