Meditations IX.37

Have done with this miserable way of life, this grumbling, this apism! Why fret? What is the novelty here? What amazes thee? The Cause? Look fairly at it. What then, the Material? Look fairly at that. Apart from these two, there is nothing. But in regard to the Gods also now even at the eleventh hour show thyself more simple,⁵³ more worthy.

Whether thy experience of these things lasts three hundred years or three, it is all one.

• 53.See iv. 26.