Occupation: Roman Emperor Birth: April 26, 121 Death: March 17, 180
Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good..
To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says….
When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you m….
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is cur….
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same..
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee..
People exist for one another..
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms..
And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equal….
In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the univ….
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action..
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself..
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans..
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom ….
Let every action aim solely at the common good..
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another..
That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements….
Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each oth….
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And….
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those who….
Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life..