About Marcus Aurelius: Marcus Aurelius is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.
Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is ...
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For w...
Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.
No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!
Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose. To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back. What else could it be but to live life fully— to pay out goodness like the rings of a chain, without t...
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Do not be ashamed of help.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.
Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.
There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility
Poverty is the mother of crime.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Confine yourself to the present.
