“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

Emperor · 121 – 180

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, author of the Meditations.

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Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

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

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Each day provides its own gifts.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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.