Marcus Aurelius: “How many pleasures have been enjoyed by robbers, patricides, tyrants.”

Labor not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor let studied ornament set off thy thoughts, and be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things.

For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.

It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).

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.