Marcus Aurelius

“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike”

“Confine yourself to the present”

“Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good”

“Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O Nature”

“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it”

“Loss is nothing else than change. But the universal nature delights in change”

“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such”

“Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them”

“Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts”

“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way”

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”

“Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life”

“What brings no benefit to the hive, brings none to the bee”