Marcus Aurelius: “It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.”

In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.

If then there is an invincible necessity, why dost thou resist?

How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.