Calm Your Mind — In Plain English

Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

In everything he said, he was never cruel, rude, or harsh. He was never greedy or rushed. He never worked so hard that you could say he was sweating over it. Instead, he did everything clearly and calmly. Without stress. In order. Thoughtfully. Pleasantly. You could have said about him what they said about Socrates — that he knew how to live without things and how to enjoy them. Most people are weak when they lack something and wild when they have it. But staying steady and moderate in both situations takes a perfect, unshakeable soul. He showed this during Maximus's illness.

Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

In all his conversation, far from all inhumanity, all boldness, and incivility, all greediness and impetuosity; never doing anything with such earnestness, and intention, that a man could say of him, that he did sweat about it: but contrariwise, all things distinctly, as at leisure; without trouble; orderly, soundly, and agreeably. A man might have applied that to him, which is recorded of Socrates, that he knew how to want, and to enjoy those things, in the want whereof, most men show themselves weak; and in the fruition, intemperate: but to hold out firm and constant, and to keep within the compass of true moderation and sobriety in either estate, is proper to a man, who hath a perfect and invincible soul; such as he showed himself in the sickness of Maximus.