Marcus Aurelius: “Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe.”

There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided.

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

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!

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!