Marcus Aurelius: “But I will look to this, that I be not discovered doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.”

But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.

Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.

There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.

How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!