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• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 3...
• Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, x, 5...
• 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...
• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 50...
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 54...
• 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....
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• 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...