Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
Marcus AureliusThere is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus AureliusDo not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.
Marcus Aurelius