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• 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.
  Marcus Aurelius, Meditatio...
• Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 4...
• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 61...
• Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all?
  Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty....
• How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
  -- Marcus Aureliu...
• How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 18...
• When anger rises, think of the consequences. -- Confuciu
• Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld