Occupation: Roman Emperor Birth: April 26, 121 Death: March 17, 180
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead..
I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth..
Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the….
Because other people are fools, must you be so too?.
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized..
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way..
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaint….
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet….
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live..
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life..
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune..
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good..
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason..
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them….
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight..
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us..
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?.
Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situatio….
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away..
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil..