Marcus Aurelius: “If he is a stranger to the universe who does not know what is in it, no less is he a stranger who does not know what is…”

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

How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.

Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual occupations.

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…