Book IX · 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 dead4 strikes our eyes more clearly.
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 IX.24. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.