Marcus Aurelius: “Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple, were always saying…”

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?

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.