Marcus Aurelius: “It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong.”

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.

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

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

It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.