Marcus Aurelius: “Take care that thou art not made into a Caesar, that thou art not dyed with this dye; for such things happen.”

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

As thou intendest to live when them art gone out, ... so it is in thy power to live here.

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.

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.