MARCUS AURELIUS

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"Waste no time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."

"Do not be ashamed of help."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

"A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others."

"You have power over your mind, not outside events."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart."

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

"A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it."

"You have control over your mind, not outside events."

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself."

"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values."

"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all is peace."

"Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you."

"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."

"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."

"All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion."

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself."

"I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me."

"Confine yourself to the present."

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

"Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back."

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”"

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength."

"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole."

"Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things."

"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one."

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."

"Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose."

"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."

"He is so rich, he has no room to shit."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."

"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."

"Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them."

"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."