Marcus Aurelius: “The good and simple and benevolent show all these things in the eyes, and there is no mistaking.”

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

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being.

Besides this, he honored those who were true philosophers, and he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was he easily led by them.

Further, I owe it to the gods that I was not hurried into any offence against any of them, though I had a disposition which, if opportunity had offered, might have led me to do something of this kind; but, through their favor, there never…