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Meditations · Book VIII · 3
Book VIII · 3

Alexander and Caius and Pompeius, what are they in comparison with Diogenes and Heraclitus and Socrates? For they were acquainted with things, and their causes [forms], and their matter, and the ruling principles of these men were the same [or conformable to their pursuits]. But as to the others, how many things had they to care for, and to how many things were they slaves!

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VIII.3. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.