Marcus Aurelius: “The periodic movements of the universe are the same, up and down from age to age.”

But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.

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.

It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).

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