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

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."

"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."

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."