Marcus Aurelius: “Things stand outside of us, themselves by themselves, neither knowing aught of themselves, nor expressing any judgment.”

It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

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

He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.

One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.