Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.