Marcus Aurelius: “Soon will the earth cover us all: then the earth, too, will change, and the things also which result from change will…”

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.

And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and…

It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

But if there is a providence which allows itself to be propitiated, make thyself worthy of the help of the divinity.