How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it?… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life… — 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
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
