Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

Wickedness only harms the culprit

The general wickedness of mankind cannot injure the universe; nor can the particular wickedness of one man injure a fellow-man. It harms none but the culprit himself; and he can free himself from it as soon as he so chooses.

Marcus Aurelius translated by Maxwell Staniforth

Good and Ill

When anyone offends against you, let your first thought be, Under what conception of good and ill was this committed? Once you know that, astonishment and anger will give place to pity. For either your own ideas of what is good are no more advanced than his, or at least bear some likeness to them, in which case it is clearly your duty to pardon him; or else, on the other hand, you have grown beyond supposing such actions to be good or bad, and therefore it will be so much the easier to be tolerant of another's blindness.

Marcus Aurelius trans. Maxwell Staniforth

Evil comes from that part of yourself which acts as assessor

For you, evil comes not from the mind of another; nor yet from any of the phases and changes of your own bodily frame. Then whence? From that part of yourself which acts as your assessor of what is evil. Refuse its assessment, and all is well.

Marcus Aurelius translation by Maxwell Staniforth

Body carriage

Also let your bodily carriage be firm, and without contortions, whether in motion or at rest. As the mind reveals itself in the face, by keeping the features composed and decent, so the same should be required of it in respect of the whole body. All this, however, must be ensured without any sort of affectation.

Marcus Aurelius

Die today

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what further time may be given you as an uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Marcus Aurelius, trans Maxwell Staniforth