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Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, Part 4

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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A Philosopher's Life, and Proper Occupation

Be not discontented with worldly distractions or human infirmities, but however love and effect that only which thou dost return unto. So shalt not make it a matter of ostentation at all, to obey reason, but of ease and comfort. As for the things of the world, their true nature is in a manner, so involved with obscurity, they seemed altogether incomprehensible,. The Stoics themselves judged them not altogether incomprehensible, yet scarce, and not without much difficulty, comprehensible.

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