The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
Marcus AureliusThe happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
Marcus AureliusAt day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
Marcus AureliusLet it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.
Marcus Aurelius