Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.' If this be so, then… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
