Marcus Aurelius: “It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.”

Besides this, he honored those who were true philosophers, and he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was he easily led by them.

From thence all things flow; and there is besides necessity, and that which is for the advantage of the whole universe, of which thou art a part.

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.

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.