Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself! — 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
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — 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
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
Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in… — 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
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
Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight,… — 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
