Marcus Aurelius: “He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a runaway.”

There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided.

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.

The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.