Marcus Aurelius: “How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophizing as this in which…”

A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.

With respect to that which happens conformably to nature, we ought to blame neither gods, for they do nothing wrong either voluntarily or involuntarily, nor men, for they do nothing wrong except involuntarily.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.