Marcus Aurelius: “And what harm is done or what is there strange, if the man who has not been instructed does the acts of an uninstructed…”

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

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.

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

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!