Occupation: Roman Emperor Birth: April 26, 121 Death: March 17, 180
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such goo….
Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day..
We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and c….
Anger cannot be dishonest..
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues..
Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be..
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work..
In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently wor….
Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself..
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom,….
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence..
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge..
Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directl….
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought..
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with..
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil..
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength..
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn..
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears..
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which….
External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now..