Marcus Aurelius: “All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.”

Further, I owe it to the gods that I was not hurried into any offence against any of them, though I had a disposition which, if opportunity had offered, might have led me to do something of this kind; but, through their favor, there never…

As thou intendest to live when them art gone out, ... so it is in thy power to live here.

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

For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.