Famous Quotes from ...
Marcus Aurelius
- How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Our life is what our thoughts make it.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- 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.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Nothing is evil which is according to nature.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- There is no living with thee, nor without thee... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Maro, you' give me nothing while you live, but, after death, you cry, then, you'll give; If thou art not indeed turned arrant ass, Thou know'st what I desire to come to pass... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Since you are so well matched, and so much alike - a very bad wife, and a very bad husband - I wonder that you do not agree... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation... Marcus Aurelius {view}
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.... Marcus Aurelius {view}