And accordingly the healthy understanding ought to be prepared for everything which happens; but that which says, Let my dear children live, and let all men praise whatever I may do, is an eye which seeks for green things, or teeth which seek for soft things.
Marcus Aurelius concludes his analogy by stating that a healthy mind should be prepared for all events, contrasting this with a mind that seeks only pleasant outcomes.
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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.
The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
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