Marcus Aurelius: “Let me see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature.”

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

But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.

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.