Marcus Aurelius: “For it is best to reach this object, and if thou dost fail, let thy failure be in attempting this.”

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