Marcus Aurelius

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Marcus Aurelius

Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius

Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Marcus Aurelius

I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Marcus Aurelius

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Marcus Aurelius

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Marcus Aurelius

In the same degree in which a man’s mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Marcus Aurelius