"But death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure—all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil."

• Marcus Aurelius

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"It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more."

• Seneca

“Ignoring what goes on in other peoples souls-no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing, how can you not be unhappy?” Marcus Aurelius “Meditations” 2:8

This one seems very close in meaning and intent to Socrates’ well known quote, “the unexamined life is not worth living” but in inverse.

If I ignore what’s going on upstairs and I don’t examine my own motives then I will certainly be miserable. All the more reason to continue my daily meditations!

"We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it?"

• Marcus Aurelius

"And I observed that he had overcome all passion for boys."

• Marcus Aurelius

"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."

• Seneca

"The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts."

• Marcus Aurelius

"Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art."

• Marcus Aurelius

"To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it."

• Marcus Aurelius