Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave, justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.
Marcus Aurelius outlines the constant power one has to accept circumstances, act justly, and maintain mental discipline.
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But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
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