Marcus Aurelius: “Well, then, is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what…”

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.

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

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.

How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!