Marcus Aurelius

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

Marcus Aurelius

How ridiculous not to flee from one’s own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another’s which is not.

Marcus Aurelius

How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.

Marcus Aurelius

I consist of a little body and a soul.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Marcus Aurelius

I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.

Marcus Aurelius

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

Marcus Aurelius

If any man can convince and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

Marcus Aurelius

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

Marcus Aurelius