Marcus Aurelius: “But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other…”

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.

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

What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?

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!