Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius speaks: "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.

In his philosophical writings collected in "Meditations," Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote a passage ... re about to hit the snooze button on your morning alarm, remember what Marcus wrote ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen. By Tom Mashberg and Graham ...