It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. — 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 any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. — 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
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
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and… — 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
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
Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one… — 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
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 you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present… — 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
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
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect… — 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
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
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 the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did… — 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 the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. — 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 souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig. — 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
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. — 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
