Marcus Aurelius: “Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.”

In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.

Besides this, he honored those who were true philosophers, and he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was he easily led by them.

All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.

All that is from the gods is full of providence.