Marcus Aurelius: “Sooner, then, will one find anything earthy which comes in contact with no earthy thing, than a man altogether separated…”

All that is from the gods is full of providence.

I observed, too, that no man could ever think that he was despised by Maximus, or ever venture to think himself a better man.

Thou must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.

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