Marcus Aurelius — "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate br…"

"Consider the life of a man of forty, and the life of a man of ten thousand years; what difference is there? For both the past is gone, and the future is uncertain."

"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."

"Thou wilt soon die, and thou art not yet simple, nor free from perturbations, nor without suspicion of harm from external things, nor an affectionate friend to wisdom, nor without suspicion that any e…"

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love what we ought and not to hate what we ought not."

"Because your life is not a series of unconnected periods, but a single, continuous stream, it is only in the present that you truly live."