Meditations 9.24

Quarrels of little children and their sports, and poor spirits carrying about dead bodies [such is everything]; and so what is exhibited in the representation of the mansions of the dead strikes our eyes more clearly.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.24, translated by George Long

Children's squabbles and make-believe, and little souls bearing up corpses—the Invocation of the Dead might strike one as a more vivid reality!

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.24, translated by C. R. Haines