Marcus Aurelius Quotes (150 Quotes)

You may send poetry to the rich to poor men give substantial presents

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Maro, you' give me nothing while you live, but, after death, you cry, then, you'll give If thou art not indeed turned arrant ass, Thou know'st what I desire to come to pass

Nothing in nature is evil.

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.

I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to save myself the trouble of mentioning the points in detail, I could do without you altogether

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

If all men cannot be brought to the same opinion on morals and religion, it is at least worthwhile to give them good reasons for as much as they can be persuaded to accept

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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

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

The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

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

It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus you are not a vicious man, you are vice itself

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.

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.

For all their compliments do verses pay They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

Be content to seem what you really are.

Each day provides its own gifts.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

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

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

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

It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor Acerra always drinks till next morning

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.

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

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

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before

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

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.

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

Knowledge the clue to life can give Then wherefore hesitate to live

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it

Socrates gave as his reason for declining an invitation to the court of Perdiccas, I have no wish to go down to my grave with ignominy implying that he would accept no favor which he could not repay

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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.

With only half a lip you kiss, And half of that I ne'er' should miss, A greater boon, of worth untold, Wilt grant me That whole half withhold

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