Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need… — 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
Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools… — 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
