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• Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 9...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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...
• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 11...
• The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 4...
• As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatme
  o shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two....
• 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...
• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 50...