“Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
– 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
“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”
– 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 opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”
– Marcus Aurelius