Quotes
Quotes - Aurelius
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
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 whom we have buried.
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
"The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man.
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
One should count each day a separate life.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
