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Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, Reading 2

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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Those Things That Are in His Own Power Are the Objects of His Employments

He is a wrestler of the best sort and for the highest prize, deeply died and drenched in righteousness. He keeps and preserves himself unspotted by pleasure, undaunted by pain, free from any manner of wrong or contourly. For those things only that are in his own power or that are truly his own are the objects of his employments. His thoughts are ever taken up with those things, which of the whole universe are by the faints or providence, destinated and appropriated unto himself.

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