Marcus Aurelius

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

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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

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.

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 happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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.

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

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

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

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Dig deep down inside yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.

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