To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“For the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For… — 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
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they,… — 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… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of… — 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
Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.' — 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
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — 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
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. — 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
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. — 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
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
