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• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be prese
  I am rising to a man's work." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 1...
• 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...
• Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 51...
• A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, viii, 26...
• All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance.
  All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried....
• The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.
  Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning....
• A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
  -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, book 9....
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 5...
• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 9...