Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

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.

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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.

Confine yourself to the present.

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

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

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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

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

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.

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

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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.

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

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

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