Marcus Aurelius

The best answer to anger is silence.

— Marcus Aurelius control

Meditations (attrib.)

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

— Marcus Aurelius fate

Meditations 9.35

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 fate

Meditations 6.39

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

— Marcus Aurelius wisdom

Meditations 4.3

That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.

— Marcus Aurelius virtue

Meditations 6.54

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

— Marcus Aurelius freedom

Meditations

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

— Marcus Aurelius virtue

Meditations 3.5

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; it stands firm and the raging of the sea falls still around it.

— Marcus Aurelius adversity

Meditations 4.49

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good.

— Marcus Aurelius virtue

Meditations 7.15

Poverty is the mother of all crafts.

— Marcus Aurelius action

Meditations (attrib.)