Marcus Aurelius: “But if there is a confusion without a governor, be content that in such a tempest thou hast in thyself a certain ruling…”

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.

It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

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

As thou intendest to live when them art gone out, ... so it is in thy power to live here.