Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole... — 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
“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To feel affection for people even when they make mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply recognize: that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself. — 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
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. — 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
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things that he had determined after due deliberation; and no vainglory in… — 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