Marcus Aurelius — "Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you…"

"Soon you'll be ashes or a skeleton. A name at most, or not even a name. But name is sound and echo. The things we want in life are empty, foul, or trivial. Like dogs snapping at each other, or childre…"

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from…"

"To endure is the first thing that a man must learn if he is to achieve anything, or if he is to live at all."

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul, and is not to be sought for from external things."

"Consider the past—a change of empires, and you may foresee the future. For it will be the same kind of thing, and it is impossible for things to deviate from the present order: wherefore to contemplat…"