Marcus Aurelius: “Pray thou: How shall I not desire to be released?”

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

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

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

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.