Marcus Aurelius: “It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.”

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.

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

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!

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