But now thou seest how great is the trouble arising from the discordance of those who live together, so that thou mayst say, Come quick, O death, lest perchance I, too, should forget myself.
From his personal reflections, expressing weariness with human discord and its potential to corrupt oneself.
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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 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.
But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!
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