Just in the same way ought we to act all through life, and where there are things which appear most worthy of our approbation, we ought to lay them bare and look at their worthlessness and strip them of all the words by which they are exalted.
Marcus Aurelius advocates for a lifelong practice of critically examining things that appear valuable, revealing their true nature by stripping away superficial praise.
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There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
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.
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