Marcus Aurelius

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

Marcus Aurelius

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Marcus Aurelius

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Marcus Aurelius

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

Marcus Aurelius

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.

Marcus Aurelius

Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.

Marcus Aurelius

Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.

Marcus Aurelius

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

Marcus Aurelius

Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.

Marcus Aurelius

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

Marcus Aurelius