Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

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

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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.'

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.