Marcus Aurelius: “He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.”

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.

What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

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.