Marcus Aurelius Over You Quotations

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.