The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself! — 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
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
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that… — 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
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
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the… — 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
Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So… — 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
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
Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they,… — 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
