Marcus Aurelius

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

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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.

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

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

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.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

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.