Marcus Aurelius: “I now have what the universal nature now wills me to have; and I do what my nature now wills me to do.”

Thou must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.

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.

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

And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and…