Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest of our life has been lived already, or is impossible… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. — 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
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“He who dreads death, dreads either an extinction of all sense, or dreads a different sort of sensation. If all sense is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. — 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
