MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations [Books IX-XII]

Book IX

• He who acts unjustly acts impiously towards the universal will. He who pursues pleasure as good, and avoids pain as evil is guilty of impiety; for that man must of necessity find fault with nature because often the bad receive pleasure and the good receive pain.

MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations [Books V-VIII]

Book V

• When men have an intense affection for an art, they choose neither to eat nor sleep, but to perfect the art that they care for. The art of all men ought to be virtue.

MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations [Books I-IV]

Book I

• From his grandfather Verus, Marcus learned good morals and to govern his passions.