Marcus Aurelius

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.
-Marcus Aurelius

Submit to the fate of your own free will.
-Marcus Aurelius

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
-Marcus Aurelius

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
-Marcus Aurelius

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
-Marcus Aurelius

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
-Marcus Aurelius

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.
-Marcus Aurelius

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
-Marcus Aurelius

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
-Marcus Aurelius

All cruelty springs from weakness.
-Marcus Aurelius