Checking in with Marcus...............................

11.   Do not copy the opinions of the arrogant, or let them dictate your own, but look at things in their true light.


17.   Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you.  Fate is at your elbow;  make yourself good while life and power are still yours.


25.  Test for yourself your capacity for the good man's life;  the life of one content with his allotted part in the universe, who seeks only to be just in his doings and charitable in his ways.


-Marcus Aurelius,  Meditations,  Book IV