Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason. — 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
