Marcus Aurelius

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

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

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

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

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.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Men exist for the sake of one another.