Marcus Aurelius: “I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things…”

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

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.

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

The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.