Marcus Aurelius: “And on the occasion of everything which happens keep this in mind, that it is that which thou hast often seen.”

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

In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.

How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.

It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.