Marcus Aurelius: “All things are the same, familiar in experience, and ephemeral in time, and worthless in the matter.”

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…

But if there is a providence which allows itself to be propitiated, make thyself worthy of the help of the divinity.

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

Either there is a fatal necessity and invincible order, or a kind providence, or a confusion without a purpose and without a director (iv. 27).