Aurelius - Meditations 3:16

3:16 – Body, vital spirit, mind: to the body belong sense perceptions; to the vital spirit, impulses; to the mind, principles. To be impressed by images belongs also to the beasts of the field; to be pulled by the strings of desire belongs to wild beasts, and to men who sin against nature, to a Phalaris or a Nero. To have the mind as guide to what appear to be duties belongs also to men who do not believe in God, who betray their own country, who do anything and everything once they have locked their doors. If then all else is common to you with those whom I have mentioned, it remains the peculiar mark of the good man to love and welcome what befalls him and what the thread fate spins for him, and not to soil the divine element seated within his breast nor to disquiet it with a mob of imaginations, but to preserve and to obey it, following God in orderly manner, uttering no word contrary to truth, doing no act contrary to justice. And if all men disbelieve that he lives simply, modestly, and contentedly, he is not angry with any one of them nor diverted from the road that leads to the goal of his life, at which he must arrive, pure, peaceful, ready to depart, without any compulsion, perfectly reconciled to his lot.
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Stoic texts:
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic Master (Seneca)
The Discourses of Epictetus
The Enchiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus
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