Marcus Aurelius

“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

“Each day provides its own gifts.”

“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.”

“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”

“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”

“Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.”

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

“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.”

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

“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”

“Anger cannot be dishonest.”

“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”