Marcus Aurelius: “All things are change, yet we need not fear anything new.”

Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries.

But if there is a providence which allows itself to be propitiated, make thyself worthy of the help of the divinity.

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

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