"Does the light of the lamp shine..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.”

“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.”

“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.”

“The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.”

“... justice is mercy's highest self.”

“The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.”

“But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.”

“With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.”

“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.”