Marcus Aurelius: “Well; out of the universe from the beginning everything which happens has been apportioned and spun out to thee.”

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

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

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

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