Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. — 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
You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility… — 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
