The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart."

"striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."

"All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion."