Marcus Aurelius: “It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.”

One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.

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

Besides this, he honored those who were true philosophers, and he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was he easily led by them.

Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.