Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

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.

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.

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.

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

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.