If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.