Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself! — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“But he that honours a reasonable soul in general, as it is reasonable and naturally sociable, doth little regard anything else: and… — 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
Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.” — 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
“Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“These two things be common to the souls, as of God, so of men, and of every reasonable creature, first that in… — 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
“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 soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed. The divine ruling principle… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In the human life time is but an instant, and the substance of it a flux, and the perception dull, and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“For there is no retreat that is quieter or freer from trouble than a man’s own soul, especially when he has within… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Such as you are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for your soul is dyed through… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” — 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