Marcus Aurelius: “Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.”

What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?

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!

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

But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.