Marcus Aurelius: “For if even the perception of doing wrong shall depart, what reason is there for living any longer?”

As thou intendest to live when them art gone out, ... so it is in thy power to live here.

If then there is an invincible necessity, why dost thou resist?

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.

What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.