Marcus Aurelius: “And all our assent is changeable; for where is the man who never changes?”

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…

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

What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.

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.