Marcus Aurelius: “Let neither the peculiar quality of anything nor its value escape thee.”

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

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

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.

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