Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity,--for thou wast made by nature a part, but now thou hast cut thyself off,--yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself.
Reflecting on human nature, Marcus Aurelius observes that even after separating oneself from the universal unity, one retains the power to reconnect.
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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.
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.
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!
The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
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