My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't… — 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
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on… — 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
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I… — 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
