Marcus Aurelius: “How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in…”

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 it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.

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!