Everything which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer; for such is disease, and death, and calumny, and treachery, and whatever else delights fools or vexes them.
Marcus Aurelius observes that all events, both pleasant and unpleasant, are natural and predictable occurrences in life.
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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.
But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
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!
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