Marcus Aurelius: “Consider that everything which happens, happens justly, and if thou observest carefully, thou wilt find it to be so.”

But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.

And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!

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

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