MARCUS AURELIUS

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

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

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

"The best revenge is not to do as they do."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."

"A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it."

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"The world is mere change, and this life, opinion."

"I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me."

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."

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

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune."

"That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

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

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

"Do not be ashamed of help."

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