Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, Reading 2
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The End of the Reasonable Creatures Is to Follow and Obey Him
The time of a man's life is as a point. His soul is restless, fortune uncertain, and fame doubtful. Our life is a warfare and a mere pilgrimage. Fame after life is no better than oblivion. All things that happen unto him to embrace contentedly as coming from whom he himself also came. To expect death as being nothing else but the resolution of those elements of which every creature is composed. If the elements themselves suffer nothing by this, their perpetual conversion of one into another, why should it be feared by any? Is not this according to nature, but nothing that is according to nature can be evil? While I was at Carnancium. A man must not only
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