Marcus Aurelius: “Consider that before long thou wilt be nobody and nowhere, nor will any of the things exist which thou now seest, nor…”

The third, then, is the ruling part; consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or…

What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.