Marcus Aurelius: “It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no…”

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.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being.

Further, I owe it to the gods that I was not hurried into any offence against any of them, though I had a disposition which, if opportunity had offered, might have led me to do something of this kind; but, through their favor, there never…

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.