This is the chief thing: Be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal; and in a little time thou wilt be nobody and nowhere, like Hadrianus and Augustus.
Marcus Aurelius emphasizes the primary importance of maintaining inner tranquility, understanding that all events align with universal nature and that personal existence is fleeting.
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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.
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.
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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