If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace… — 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
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. — 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
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider… — 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
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded,… — 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
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
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any… — 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
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
Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go… — 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
...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms?… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's… — 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
