Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. – Marcus Aurelius
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. – Marcus Aurelius
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. – Marcus Aurelius
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. – Marcus Aurelius
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman