AURELIUS, MARCUS : How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

AURELIUS, MARCUS : Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

AURELIUS, MARCUS : Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

AURELIUS, MARCUS : It is not death that a man should fear, but the fear of never beginning to live. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

AURELIUS, MARCUS : Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

AURELIUS, MARCUS : Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

AURELIUS, MARCUS : The act of dying is one of the acts of life. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

AURELIUS, MARCUS : To live happily is an inward power of the soul. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

AURELIUS, MARCUS : What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies . . . the real man. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, 121 A.D.-180 A.D.)