But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.
From his personal reflections, this passage offers a stoic perspective on death, arguing that either there is no sensation to experience harm, or life continues in a different form.
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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 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.
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!
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