Marcus Aurelius: “We must not chafe and fret at that which happens.”

For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.

The third, then, is the ruling part; consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or…

It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).

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…