Marcus Aurelius

The whole universe is change; and life itself is but what you deem it.

— Marcus Aurelius wisdom

Meditations 4.3

Do not be ashamed to want help.

— Marcus Aurelius virtue

Meditations 7.7

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them.

— Marcus Aurelius adversity

Meditations 8.47

Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if you bear in mind that it has its limits, and if you add nothing to it in imagination.

— Marcus Aurelius adversity

Meditations 7.64

What is evil? That which you have often seen. And on occasion of everything which happens, keep this in mind, that it is the same which thou hast often seen.

— Marcus Aurelius wisdom

Meditations 7.1