And, to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
As part of his philosophical reflections, Marcus Aurelius provides a powerful distillation of the fleeting nature of physical existence, the soul, and human endeavors.
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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 if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
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