Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
Marcus Aurelius advises living in harmony with nature and accepting death with gratitude, likening it to a ripe olive falling from its tree.
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All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
But if there is a providence which allows itself to be propitiated, make thyself worthy of the help of the divinity.
It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).
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