Marcus Aurelius

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.