Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms.
Marcus Aurelius reflects on the ultimate equality of all individuals in death, regardless of their earthly status.
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He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.
Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.
How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.
But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.
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