Quotes from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

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.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.