If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will… — 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
Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — 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
Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more… — 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
“Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest of our life has been lived already, or is impossible… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said 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
