"Let thine occupations be few, saith the..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'”

“The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.”

“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.”

“I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.”

“There's keen delight in what we have:The rattle of pebbles on the shoreUnder the receding wave.”

“It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.”

“If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.”

“The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.”

“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .”