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 AURELIUSNever let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
-
-
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
MARCUS AURELIUS