Quotes
Quotes - Aurelius
Live with the gods.
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
Death,--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!
One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
