Marcus Aurelius: “How many pleasures have been enjoyed by robbers, patricides, tyrants.”

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!

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

There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided.

Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.