Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Quotes VII

-The common nature brings nothing that you cannot bear.
-If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now. But if anything in your own disposition gives you pain, who hinders you from correcting your opinion? And even if you are pained because your are not doing some particular thing that seems to you to be right, why do you not rather act than complain?
-The ruling faculty is invincible.
-The mind that is free from passions is a citadel.
-How then shall you possess a perpetual fountain and not a mere well? By forming yourself hourly to freedom conjoined with contentment, simplicity, and modesty.
-He who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, or what the world is.
-Frequently the bad are in the enjoyment of pleasure and possess the things that procure pleasure, but the good have pain for their share and the things that cause pain.
-It would be a man's happiest lot to depart from mankind without having had any taste of lying and hypocrisy  and luxury and pride.
-Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this, too, is one of those things that nature wills. For such as it is to be young and to grow old, and to increase and to reach maturity, and to have teeth and beard and grey hairs, and to beget, and to be pregnant and to bring forth, such also is dissolution.
-It is no way right to be offended with men, but it is your duty to care for them and to bear with them gently; and yet to remember that your departure will be not from men who have the same principles as yourself.
-He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
-If you are able, correct by teaching those who do wrong.
-All things are the same, familiar in experience, and ephemeral in time, and worthless in matter. Everything now is just as it was in the time of those whom we have buried.
-All things are changing: and you yourself are in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction, and the whole universe, too.
-Death, is this anything to fear?
-You have endured infinite troubles through not being contended with your ruling faculty's doing the things that it is constituted by nature to do. But enough of this.
-When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you. You must, however, be well disposed toward them, for by nature they are friends. And the gods, too, aid them in all ways, by dreams, by signs, toward the attainment of those things on which they set a value.
-Set yourself in motion, if it is in your power, and do not look about you to see if anyone will observe it.
-You can rid yourself of many useless things among those that disturb you, for they lie entirely in your imagination.
-Loss is nothing else than change.
-Why are you disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles you? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Toward the gods, then, now become at last simpler and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.
-An antidote against the stupid man: mildness.
-Where is the harm or the strangeness in the boor acting like a boor?
-What more do you want when you have done a man a service? Are you not content that you have done something comformable to your nature? Do you seek to be paid for it?