Marcus Aurelius: “Why then should a man cling to a longer stay here?”

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!

But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.

But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.

But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.