Marcus Aurelius

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

Marcus Aurelius

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

Marcus Aurelius

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.

Marcus Aurelius

All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.

Marcus Aurelius

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

Marcus Aurelius

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Marcus Aurelius

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

Marcus Aurelius

And as upon thy face and looks, thy mind hath easily power over them to keep them to that which is grave and decent; so let it challenge the same power over the whole body also.

Marcus Aurelius

And he cares nothing for their praise-men who can’t even meet their own standards.

Marcus Aurelius

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

Marcus Aurelius