Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Give yourself a gift: the present moment.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.