Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

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.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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

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

Confine yourself to the present.

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

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

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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.

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

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

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