If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to… — 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
Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied. — 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
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity ... — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. — 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
Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily — 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
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
