Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to… — 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
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt;… — 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
“That which rules within, when it is according to nature, will always adapt itself easily to that which is possible and is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Thou must hasten therefore; not only because thou art every day nearer unto death than other, but also because that intellective faculty… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Remember: philosophy requires only what your nature already demands.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“.. how worthless are all these poor people who are engaged in matters political, and, as they suppose, are playing the philosopher.… — 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
