Marcus Aurelius: “As thou intendest to live when them art gone out, ... so it is in thy power to live here.”

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?

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

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!