Enough of this miserable way of life, these everlasting grumbles, these monkey antics!  Why must you agitate yourself so?  Nothing unprecedented is happening; so what is it that disturbs you?  The form of it?  Take a good look at it.  The matter of it?  Look well at that, too.  Beyond form and matter, there is nothing more.  Even at this late hour, set yourself to become a simpler and better man in the sight of the gods.  For the mastering of that lesson, three years are as good as a hundred.

• life
• stoicism
• gods
• matter