Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

That which is from fortune is not separated from nature or without an interweaving and involution with the things which are ordered by Providence. From thence all things flow; and there is besides necessity, and that which is for the advantage of the whole universe, of which thou art a part.

All is one. All to the good.

For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?

to be vexed at anything which happens is a separation of ourselves from nature, in some part of which the natures of all other things are contained.