Marcus Aurelius — "If thou art able, make it so that all men shall live as thou wouldst have them l…"

"To live each day as if it were thy last, without haste, without sloth, without hypocrisy."

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

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change existing things and to make new things like…"

"Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou wilt lose thy opportunity for doing anything else."

"He who is afraid of death is afraid of loss of sensation, or of a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another k…"