Marcus Aurelius — "Soon you'll be ashes or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name; but na…"

"Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or still uncertain. Short is the life of man, and short is the span of his plea…"

"Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been."

"Every soul, the philosopher says, is unwillingly deprived of truth."

"Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power."

"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…"