Marcus Aurelius: “For the integrity of the whole is mutilated, if thou cuttest off anything whatever from the conjunction and the…”

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

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

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