Marcus Aurelius: “How unsound and insincere is he who says, I have determined to deal with thee in a fair way!--What are thou doing, man?”

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.

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

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.