Marcus Aurelius: “Do not then be tired of receiving what is useful by doing it to others.”

Either there is a fatal necessity and invincible order, or a kind providence, or a confusion without a purpose and without a director (iv. 27).

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.

There was in him nothing harsh, nor implacable, nor violent, nor, as one may say, anything carried to the sweating point; but he examined all things severally, as if he had abundance of time, and without confusion, in an orderly way…

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