Marcus Aurelius: “In discourse thou must attend to what is said, and in every movement thou must observe what is doing.”

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

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.

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

I observed, too, that no man could ever think that he was despised by Maximus, or ever venture to think himself a better man.