More quotes by Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
"striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."
"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."
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."