Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake… — 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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