More quotes by Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"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."
"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."