Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools… — 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
