More quotes by Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."