Stoic Snippets 159

Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the beginning and the continuance, just like the man who throws up a ball. 

What good is it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to come down, or even to have fallen? 

And what good is it to the bubble while it holds together, or what harm when it is burst? 

The same may be said of a light also.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.20