Marcus Aurelius: “When another blames thee or hates thee, or when men say about thee anything injurious, approach their poor souls…”

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

For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.

Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.

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…