“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.”
— Marcus Aurelius