Marcus Aurelius: “Smoke and ash and a tale, or not even a tale.”

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.

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!

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.