“All that happens is as habitual and familiar as roses in spring and fruit in the summer. True too of disease, death,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on… — 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
It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy… — 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
I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.… — 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
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if… — 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
