“striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. — 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
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole... — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything. — 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
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well… — 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
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse… — 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
Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to… — 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
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is only for a day ... the universe loves nothing so much as to change things. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. — 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
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
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