Marcus Aurelius: “Thou sufferest this justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.”

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

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.

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

Either there is a fatal necessity and invincible order, or a kind providence, or a confusion without a purpose and without a director (iv. 27).