Marcus Aurelius: “That which has died falls not out of the universe.”

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.

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

It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).

But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.