Do every act of your life as though it were the very last ac... - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."

"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"

"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."