"It is not death that a man..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.”

“And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.”

“It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.”

“Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent.”

“Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.”

“[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.”

“Loud threats often indicate deep fears”

“The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.”

“Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.”