Marcus Aurelius: “And if thou seest clear, go by this way content, without turning back; but if thou dost not see clear, stop and take the…”

There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.

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

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

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.