Meditations

Or:

And why should we feel anger at the world?

And:

To harvest life like standing stalks of grain

and a good many others.

Then, after tragedy, Old Comedy: instructive in its
frankness, its plain speaking designed to puncture
pretensions. (Diogenes used the same tactic for similar
ends.)

Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy
and what it aimed at—gradually degenerating into mere
realism and empty technique. There are undeniably good
passages, even in those writers, but what was the point of it
all—the script and staging alike?

7. It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to
   philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.