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• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 31...
• Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 27...
• 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...
• Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 10...
• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
• Live with the gods. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 27
• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favou
  for even death is one of the things that Nature wills....
• If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, xii, 17...