Marcus Aurelius: “Soon will the earth cover us all: then the earth, too, will change, and the things also which result from change will…”

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

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.

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.

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!