The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself. — 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
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
Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The things ordained for you—teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you—treat them with… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you!… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. — 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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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
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