Marcus Aurelius

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Marcus Aurelius

People exist for one another.

Marcus Aurelius

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Marcus Aurelius

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Marcus Aurelius

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Marcus Aurelius

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

Marcus Aurelius

Put from you the belief that ‘I have been wronged’, and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

Marcus Aurelius

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

Marcus Aurelius