Marcus Aurelius: “That which has died falls not out of the universe.”

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.

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!

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

Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.