Marcus Aurelius: “Thou thus: How shall I not be afraid to lose him?”

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.

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.

There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.

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!