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."
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."
"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."
"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
"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."