Marcus Aurelius — "How many have been afraid of death and yet have died laughing?"

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in that it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall."

"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, the…"

"If a man is able to show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance."

"The universe is transformation; life is opinion."

"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not embrace in your imagination all the various troubles which are likely to befall you, but rather, at every accession of trouble, ask yo…"