Marcus Aurelius: “Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this too is one of those things which nature wills.”

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!

But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.

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.

But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.