Marcus Aurelius: “And what harm is done or what is there strange, if the man who has not been instructed does the acts of an uninstructed…”

Besides this, he honored those who were true philosophers, and he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was he easily led by them.

How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.

Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual occupations.

For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.