Marcus Aurelius: “If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the…”

For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.

He was accustomed to do acts of beneficence, and was ready to forgive, and was free from all falsehood; and he presented the appearance of a man who could not be diverted from right, rather than of a man who had been improved.