Marcus Aurelius: “But most of all when thou blamest a man as faithless or ungrateful, turn to thyself.”

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

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.

That which is from fortune is not separated from nature or without an interweaving and involution with the things which are ordered by providence.

Further, I owe it to the gods that I was not hurried into any offence against any of them, though I had a disposition which, if opportunity had offered, might have led me to do something of this kind; but, through their favor, there never…