Marcus Aurelius: “But if anything in thy own disposition gives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion?”

But if there is a providence which allows itself to be propitiated, make thyself worthy of the help of the divinity.

What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.

It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).

Labor not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor let studied ornament set off thy thoughts, and be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things.