My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — 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
