Antoninus

Antoninus (121-180), full name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, was a Roman emperor, successor to Antoninus Pius, and who surpassed him in virtue, being also of the Stoic school and one of its most exemplary disciples, was surnamed the "philosopher," and has left in his "Meditations" a record of his religious and moral principles.

Wisdom & Quotes

Meditations

• Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
• To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
• A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
• Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Galen