Marcus Aurelius: “But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for…”

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.

How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.

There was in him nothing harsh, nor implacable, nor violent, nor, as one may say, anything carried to the sweating point; but he examined all things severally, as if he had abundance of time, and without confusion, in an orderly way…

He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.