Marcus Aurelius: “Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of…”

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.

With respect to that which happens conformably to nature, we ought to blame neither gods, for they do nothing wrong either voluntarily or involuntarily, nor men, for they do nothing wrong except involuntarily.

Labor not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor let studied ornament set off thy thoughts, and be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things.

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.