Marcus Aurelius: “Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.”

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

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

What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?

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!