More quotes by 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."
"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."
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."
"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."