Robert Alvarez

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

“You consist of body, breath (or life), and mind. Body and breath are yours to care for, while the mind is the part that does the caring. Mind is the gateway to your core self. Remember that who you are is separate from outside events and circumstances, worries about what might happen in the future, your bodily ills and pains, what others do or say, and even what you yourself have done and said in the past. Freedom consists in detaching from all these things that are not you, and letting them be whatever they will be. Then your core self will be like Empedocles’ sphere, “Perfectly round, whole, and in joyous rest reposing.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

“Don’t bind yourself, with the chains of desire and fear, to things that are outside your sphere of control. This is a matter of sanity.” —Epictetus”
― 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