The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this, too, is one of those things that nature wills. For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature,… — 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
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you’ll be no one, nowhere.” — 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
The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up:… — 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
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“to grumble at anything that happens is a rebellion against Nature, in some part of which are bound up the natures of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“And why is it so hard when things go against you? If it’s imposed by nature, accept it gladly and stop fighting… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part… — 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
