Marcus Aurelius: “For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.”

Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.

The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.

But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.

How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!