Marcus Aurelius: “Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which…”

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

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

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