Marcus Aurelius: “In the mind of one who is chastened and purified thou wilt find no corrupt matter, nor impurity, nor any sore skinned…”

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 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 light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.

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