Marcus Aurelius: “Thou must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.”

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.

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

It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).

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.