For those persons have their peculiar leading principle and follow their peculiar movement; which things do not thou regard, but go straight on, following thy own nature and the common nature; and the way of both is one.
Marcus Aurelius instructs himself to focus on his own path and universal nature, rather than being swayed by the unique principles of others.
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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.
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being.
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