Marcus Aurelius

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. Our life is what our thoughts make it.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.