Marcus Aurelius: “Observe then as thou hast begun; and whatever thou doest, do it in conjunction with this, the being good, and in the…”

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

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

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

In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.