Marcus Aurelius: “A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave another soon will lament.”

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.

What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?

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

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!