Marcus Aurelius: “Penetrate inwards into men's leading principles, and thou wilt see what judges thou art afraid of, and what kind of…”

Labor not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor let studied ornament set off thy thoughts, and be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things.

How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.

He was accustomed to do acts of beneficence, and was ready to forgive, and was free from all falsehood; and he presented the appearance of a man who could not be diverted from right, rather than of a man who had been improved.

It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.