No talent for it? Honesty, grit and calm need none.

The source

"No talent for it? Honesty, grit and calm need none." Marcus Aurelius said it in Meditations 5.5. Translated by George Long, 1862.

"Show those qualities then which are altogether in thy power, sincerity, gravity, endurance of labour ... in which there is no excuse of natural incapacity"

George Long, 1862, Meditations 5.5.

Who said it

Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD). Roman emperor who wrote private notes to himself on a military campaign. We know them as the Meditations.

Questions

Who said "No talent for it? Honesty, grit and calm need none."?

Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD). Source: Meditations 5.5.

What is the original wording?

Show those qualities then which are altogether in thy power, sincerity, gravity, endurance of labour ... in which there is no excuse of natural incapacity (George Long, 1862). Translated by George Long, 1862.