Marcus Aurelius: “And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.”

He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.

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

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…

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