Marcus Aurelius: “Termination of activity, cessation from movement and opinion, and in a sense their death, is no evil.”

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

Thou must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.

But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.

Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual occupations.