Quotes from Marcus Aurelius

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

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

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

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

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

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Confine yourself to the present.

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.

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

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, "This is a misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

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.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live.