Marcus Aurelius: “For the stone which has been thrown up it is no evil to come down, nor indeed any good to have been carried up (viii.…”

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.

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.

There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided.