Marcus Aurelius quotes

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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 it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.