When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select… — 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
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
Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant,… — 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