Marcus Aurelius

That you don’t know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people’s actions with real understanding.

Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Marcus Aurelius

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

Marcus Aurelius

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

Marcus Aurelius

The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don’t.

Marcus Aurelius

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Marcus Aurelius

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

Marcus Aurelius

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

Marcus Aurelius

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

Marcus Aurelius

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius