Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. – Marcus Aurelius
Any man of forty who is endowed with moderate intelligence has seen—in the light of the uniformity of nature—the entire past and future. – Marcus Aurelius
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas