In everything which happens keep before thy eyes those to whom the same things happened, and how they were vexed, and treated them as strange things, and found fault with them: and now where are they?
In his private journal, Marcus Aurelius reflects on the transient nature of human reactions to events and the ultimate fate of those who were vexed.
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What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
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!
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.
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