Marcus Aurelius: “One thing here is worth a great deal, to pass thy life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition even to liars…”

But if there is a providence which allows itself to be propitiated, make thyself worthy of the help of the divinity.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being.

One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.

Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual occupations.