When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all… — 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
Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one. — 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
