Marcus Aurelius: “But I, unless I think that what has happened is an evil, am not injured.”

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

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

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

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.