Marcus Aurelius: “Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee.”

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.

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.

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.

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!