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• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 9...
• Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 27...
• Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate
  let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody....
• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 4...
• Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 7...
• Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 39...
• Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 16...