Further, I owe it to the gods that I was not hurried into any offence against any of them, though I had a disposition which, if opportunity had offered, might have led me to do something of this kind; but, through their favor, there never was such a concurrence of circumstances as put me to the trial.
Marcus Aurelius expresses gratitude to the gods for protecting him from committing offenses, acknowledging his own potential for error.
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But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
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.
But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
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