Marcus Aurelius: “What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals…”

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

If then there is an invincible necessity, why dost thou resist?

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

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.