Marcus Aurelius: “How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in…”

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

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!

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