Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of… — 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
My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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
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
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
It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity ... — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts… — 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
