Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
