And again, consider that for whatever purpose each thing has been constituted, for this it has been constituted, and towards this it is carried; and its end is in that towards which it is carried; and where the end is, there also is the advantage and the good of each thing.
Marcus Aurelius reflects on the inherent purpose and natural trajectory of every entity in the universe.
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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 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.
How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!
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