From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is… — 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
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of… — 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
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief — 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
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken… — 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
Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I… — 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
Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. — 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
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear 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