that all things happen according to the universal nature;
that a man's wrongful act is nothing to thee;
that everything happens, has always happened so and will happen so and now happens so everywhere;
how close is the kinship between a man and the whole human race, for it is a community, not of a little blood or seed, but of intelligence;
that every man's intelligence is God and is an efflux of the deity;
that nothing is man's own, but that his child and his body and his very soul shall come from the deity;
that everything is opinion;
that every man lives in the present time only and loses only this."
Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher and Roman Emperor
