If, then, thou maintainest thyself in the possession of these names, without desiring to be called by these names by others, thou wilt be another person and wilt enter on another life.
From his personal reflections, Marcus Aurelius considers the transformative power of living virtuously without seeking external validation.
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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.
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!
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.
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