Marcus Aurelius Quotes (150 Quotes)

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

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

A cucumber is bitter.' Throw it away. 'There are briars in the road.' Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made in the world

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.

Your legs and breast bristle with shaggy hair but your mind, Pannicus, shows no signs of manliness

To no man make yourself a boon companion Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art Add water they will swim

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.

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard

Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay If thou but come, thy folk will find it day

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

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

When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A most instructive case to view The hundred fingered me with hands Chill'd by the blasts of northern lands Fever at outset had I none I have it, Sir,

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.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

He who prefers to give to Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

To read my book, the virgin shy - May blush, while Brutus standeth by But when he's gone, read through what's writ, And never stain a cheek for it

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Good men make life a twofold span to last Twice does he live who can enjoy his past

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you Fool, what have you done Your wife has lost nothing by the operation

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

There comes a time when you may have to call for help. Do we have a plan of substance in place Yes. Are there things we need to explore further Probably. Will we do so Yes.

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield Well this it yields to me the view, my Linus, has no sign of you

All of us are creatures of a day the rememberer and the remembered alike.

Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

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

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

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

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.

Confine yourself to the present.

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.

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

One universe made up all that is and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

With red hair, a black face, a cloven foot, and blear eyes, you show the world a prodigy, Zoilus, if you are an honest man

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

This event is frankly too big to have opinions about. All I can think to do is point to one of my all-time favorite college quotes Think of destiny, ... and how puny a part of it you are.

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.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

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.