Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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Οἷς συγκεκλήρωσαι πράγμασι, τούτοις συνάρμοζε σεαυτόν, καὶ οἷς συνείληχας ἀνθρώποις, τούτους φίλει, ἀλλ ἀληθινῶς.
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No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
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You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
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All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.
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Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
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Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
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Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
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Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
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Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
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Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
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The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
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I consist of a little body and a soul.
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Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
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Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
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All those events in history were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.