Marcus Aurelius: “Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art.”

Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.

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

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!

And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!