Explore Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Each day provides its own gifts.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.