Explore Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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

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

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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