Marcus Aurelius: “Whatever happens to every man, this is for the interest of the universal: this might be sufficient.”

Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual occupations.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.

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…

One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.