...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which… — 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
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. — 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
God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual… — 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
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as… — 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
If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.' — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them. — 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
