"Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.14
"To bear trials with a calm mind
robs misfortune of its strength and burden."
~ Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus, 231-232
"In all things we should try to make ourselves be as grateful as possible. For gratitude is a good thing for ourselves, in a manner in which justice, commonly held to belong to others, is not. Gratitude pays itself back in large measure."
~~ Seneca, Moral Letters, 81.19
"Everything lasts for a day, the one who remembers, and the remembered."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.35
Ibi semper est victoria ubi concordia est.
"Where there is concord, there always is victory."
~ Publilius Syrus, Sententia 289
With macrons: Ibi semper est victōria ubi concordia est.
"It's a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.29
Fures privatorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt; fures publici in auro atque in purpura.
"Thieves who steal from private individuals spend their life in bond and shackles; thieves who steal from the public treasury, in gold and purple."
~ Cato the Elder, 234 - 149 B.C.E.
