Marcus Aurelius: “That which does no harm to the state, does no harm to the citizen.”

For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.

From thence all things flow; and there is besides necessity, and that which is for the advantage of the whole universe, of which thou art a part.

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.

Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.