“When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The Stoic discovers the model for his virtuous conduct in studying the laws of nature; just as each object, plant, and animal… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“One is a careful distinction between things which are in our power and things which are not. Desire and dislike, opinion and… — 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
