How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
Marcus AureliusLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus AureliusAll things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.
Marcus Aurelius