Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

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.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

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

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.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

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.

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

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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.

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.

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

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Each day provides its own gifts.

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.

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

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

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.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.