Robert Alvarez

“Each morning, remind yourself that this day may be your last. And when you tuck your children into bed at night, remember that they, too, are mortals who someday will die.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

“You can’t set down rules for others until you have first followed them yourself.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

“I often wonder how it is that most people value their own lives above others, yet value other’s opinions of them over their own self-opinions.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

“In a wicked generation, might makes right, violence is praised, and virtue is slandered.” —Hesiod, Works and Days”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations