Marcus Aurelius: “I observed, too, that no man could ever think that he was despised by Maximus, or ever venture to think himself a better…”

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

From thence all things flow; and there is besides necessity, and that which is for the advantage of the whole universe, of which thou art a part.

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

He took a reasonable care of his body's health, not as one who was greatly attached to life, nor out of regard to personal appearance, nor yet in a careless way, but so that through his own attention he very seldom stood in need of the…