Marcus Aurelius: “We must not chafe and fret at that which happens.”

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

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

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.