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• Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
  Marcus Aureliu...
• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,--yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes.
  So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it....
• Life is a warfare, & a stranger's sojourn, And after fame is oblivion. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninu
• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -- Marcus Aureliu
• Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. -- Marcus Aureliu
• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 44...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotte
  and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!...