Marcus Aurelius: “Sooner, then, will one find anything earthy which comes in contact with no earthy thing, than a man altogether separated…”

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

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!

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

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.