Quotes from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

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

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.

Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

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.'

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

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

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

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

One universe made up of 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.

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage,"if you would lead a tranquil life."

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.