Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts y... - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."

"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne."

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

"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."

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