To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus AureliusAll things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
Marcus AureliusBecause your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus AureliusDo not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'
Marcus Aurelius