Marcus Aurelius — "Live out your life in peace, be silent, and be content with what is given you."

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

"In a little while you will be nobody and nowhere."

"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."

"Look to the things themselves, and consider what they are when they shall lose their coverings and see their nakedness: how many things that seem great and terrible and wonderful are then seen to be o…"

"A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made?'"