""A cucumber is bitter." Throw it away. "There are briars in the road." Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, "And why were such things made in the world?""
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)

"How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never or ever will see, this they set much value on."
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)

"I have oftened wondered how it is that very man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)

"Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?"
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)

"Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear."
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)

"Nothing is evil which is according to nature."
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)

"Our life is what our thoughts make of it."
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)