It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything! — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. — 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
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