Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

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

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.

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...

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prep...

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.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.

Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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."

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

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

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.