Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“that there is but a certain limit of time appointed unto thee, which if thou shalt not make use of to calm… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“One man after burying another has been laid out dead, and another buries him; and all this in a short time. To… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Even if you were destined to live three thousand years, or ten times that long, nevertheless remember that no one loses any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it?… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time. — 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
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the… — 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
