Marcus Aurelius: “It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.”

From thence all things flow; and there is besides necessity, and that which is for the advantage of the whole universe, of which thou art a part.

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

All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.

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