The ruling principle is that which rouses and turns itself, and while it makes itself such as it is and such as it wills to be, it also makes everything which happens appear to itself to be such as it wills.
Marcus Aurelius reflects on the mind's ruling principle, asserting its power to self-direct and to interpret external events according to its own will.
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How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.
But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.
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