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
We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then… — 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 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
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
“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
“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
“Thou must hasten therefore; not only because thou art every day nearer unto death than other, but also because that intellective faculty… — 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
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. — 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
If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future .… — 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
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, 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 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
