The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus AureliusI seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
Marcus AureliusHow many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.
Marcus AureliusRemember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.
Marcus AureliusEnough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.
Marcus Aurelius