In such darkness then and dirt, and in so constant a flux both of substance and of time, and of motion and of things moved, what there is worth being highly prized, or even an object of serious pursuit, I cannot imagine.
In his private meditations, Marcus Aurelius expresses profound skepticism about the value of worldly pursuits amidst constant change and decay.
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How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.
How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.
He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
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