Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day. — 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 right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it… — 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
There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything! — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself. — 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
“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
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