Marcus Aurelius
30 quotations
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Confine yourself to the present
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.