MARCUS AURELIUS

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"You have control over your mind, not outside events."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"You have power over your mind, not outside events."

"Waste no time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

"A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."

"No one can lose either the past or the future."

"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."

"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself."

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

"A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others."

"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength."

"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values."

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"Do not be ashamed of help."

"Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back."

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."

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

"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole."

"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."

"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one."

"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose."

"He is so rich, he has no room to shit."

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."

"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now."

"In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence."

"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."

"It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments."

"Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason."

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm."

"Life is opinion."

"Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee."

"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own."

"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

"Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."