The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — 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
“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
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. — 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
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
If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.' — 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
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent… — 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
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
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
Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — 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
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a… — 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
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
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans. — 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
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
“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
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
