Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

— Marcus Aurelius control

Meditations 4.7

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

— Marcus Aurelius wisdom

Meditations

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

— Marcus Aurelius adversity

Meditations 7.8

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

— Marcus Aurelius mortality

Meditations

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

— Marcus Aurelius wisdom

Meditations 7.67

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

— Marcus Aurelius control

Meditations 11.18

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

— Marcus Aurelius virtue

Meditations 7.3

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly.

— Marcus Aurelius fate

Meditations 4.10

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

— Marcus Aurelius fate

Meditations 4.10

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

— Marcus Aurelius fate

Meditations 10.20