Marcus Aurelius

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Marcus Aurelius

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Marcus Aurelius

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

Marcus Aurelius

Blame and praise have no true effects.

Marcus Aurelius

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

Marcus Aurelius

But cast away the thirst after books, that thou mayest not die murmuring, but cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful to the gods.

Marcus Aurelius

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with god or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Marcus Aurelius

By a tranquil mind, I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Marcus Aurelius

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

Marcus Aurelius

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

Marcus Aurelius