Marcus Aurelius: “Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

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…

For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.

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

Either there is a fatal necessity and invincible order, or a kind providence, or a confusion without a purpose and without a director (iv. 27).