Marcus Aurelius

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”

“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”

“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.”

“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”

“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”

“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”

“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.”

“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.”

“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”

“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”

“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”

“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”

“Men exist for the sake of one another.”

“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”

“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”