Marcus Aurelius: “But to have good repute amid such a world as this is an empty thing.”

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!

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

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.