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• Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 7...
• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 9...
• Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 39...
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 4...
• Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate
  let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody....
• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 11...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, xi, 10...