Marcus Aurelius

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 10.16 (trans. Gregory Hays)

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 11.18

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 12.17

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 2.11 (trans. Gregory Hays)

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 6.6

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 7.67

“Confine yourself to the present.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 8.36