Marcus Aurelius: “To my own free will the free will of my neighbor is just as indifferent as his poor breath and flesh.”

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

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.

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.