Marcus Aurelius: “All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them…”

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

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

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.