The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
Marcus AureliusRemember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
Marcus AureliusThink not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Marcus AureliusHow barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant.
Marcus Aurelius