Marcus Aurelius: “But further thou wilt observe this also as a general truth, if thou dost observe, that whatever is profitable to any man…”

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.

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 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.

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