The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give… — 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
It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy… — 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
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the… — 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
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
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were… — 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
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