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• Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for ma
  but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee....
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be prese
  I am rising to a man's work." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 1...
• Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 14...
• Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 39...
• 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...
• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 21...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...