Marcus Aurelius: “Do thou pray thus: How shall I not desire to lie with her?”

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.

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

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.

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.