Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

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

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

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

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.

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