About pain: the pain which is intolerable carries us off; but that which lasts a long time is tolerable; and the mind maintains its own tranquillity by retiring into itself, and the ruling faculty is not made worse.
Marcus Aurelius reflects on the nature of pain and the mind's capacity to endure it through inner retreat.
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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.
What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
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