Marcus Aurelius: “It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for…”

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

And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and…

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.

Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries.