“What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to …” — Marcus Aurelius

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.