Marcus Aurelius: “Wipe out imagination; check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power.”

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

But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.

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.

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