What good is it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to come down, or even to have fallen? and what good is it to the bubble while it holds together, or what harm when it is burst?
From his personal reflections, he questions the inherent value or harm in transient physical events.
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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.
And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!
But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
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