Marcus Aurelius: “By remembering, then, that I am a part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.”

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

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!

But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.