Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — 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
“He who dreads death, dreads either an extinction of all sense, or dreads a different sort of sensation. If all sense is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“All that happens is as habitual and familiar as roses in spring and fruit in the summer. True too of disease, death,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of… — 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
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old… — 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
“What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Of the life of man the duration is but a point, its substance streaming away, its perception dim, the fabric of the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Thy speech is not right, O man! if thou supposest that he that is of any worth at all, should apprehend either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this, too, is one of those things that nature wills. For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this” — 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
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future .… — 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
