Marcus Aurelius: “And if thou seest clear, go by this way content, without turning back; but if thou dost not see clear, stop and take the…”

Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.

But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.

For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.

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