Love Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

— Marcus Aurelius

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

— Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

— Marcus Aurelius

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

— Marcus Aurelius

The intelligence of the universe is social.

— Marcus Aurelius

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

— Marcus Aurelius

The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

— Marcus Aurelius

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

— Marcus Aurelius

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

— Marcus Aurelius

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

— Marcus Aurelius

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?

— Marcus Aurelius

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

— Marcus Aurelius

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

— Marcus Aurelius

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

— Marcus Aurelius

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

— Marcus Aurelius

This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...

— Marcus Aurelius

“The things ordained for you—teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you—treat them with…

— Marcus Aurelius

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

— Marcus Aurelius

Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet…

— Marcus Aurelius

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think,…

— Marcus Aurelius

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you!…

— Marcus Aurelius

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little…

— Marcus Aurelius

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with…

— Marcus Aurelius

“And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he…

— Marcus Aurelius

“One is a careful distinction between things which are in our power and things which are not. Desire and dislike, opinion and…

— Marcus Aurelius

Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of…

— Marcus Aurelius

Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou…

— Marcus Aurelius

“To feel affection for people even when they make mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply recognize: that…

— Marcus Aurelius

“I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things that he had determined after due deliberation; and no vainglory in…

— Marcus Aurelius

And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Give what thou wilt, and take away what thou wilt, saith he that is well taught and truly modest, to Him that…

— Marcus Aurelius

The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything…

— Marcus Aurelius

“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by…

— Marcus Aurelius

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,…

— Marcus Aurelius

To expect an impossibility is madness.

— Marcus Aurelius

Let no act be done without purpose.

— Marcus Aurelius

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

— Marcus Aurelius

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

— Marcus Aurelius

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

— Marcus Aurelius