Marcus Aurelius: “Speak both in the senate and to every man, whoever he may be, appropriately, not with any affectation: use plain…”

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

For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.

I observed, too, that no man could ever think that he was despised by Maximus, or ever venture to think himself a better man.

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…