Marcus Aurelius: “Neither does the nature of anything, whatever it may be, cause anything which is not suitable to that which is directed…”

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.

The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.

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

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