Quotes from Marcus Aurelius

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

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

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

How soon will time cover all things.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Love the people with whom fate brings you together

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

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.