With respect to pain, then, and pleasure, or death and life, or honor and dishonor, which the universal nature employs equally, whoever is not equally affected is manifestly acting impiously.
From his personal reflections, on maintaining equanimity towards life's dualities in accordance with nature.
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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 if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
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