“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.”

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.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

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.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.