Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Anger cannot be dishonest.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.''
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Men exist for the sake of one another.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Poverty is the mother of crime.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
