The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
MARCUS AURELIUSYour days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
MARCUS AURELIUSIf you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
MARCUS AURELIUSPerfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
MARCUS AURELIUSReceive without conceit, release without struggle.
MARCUS AURELIUSTo refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
MARCUS AURELIUSHow ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
MARCUS AURELIUSMisfortune nobly born is good fortune.
MARCUS AURELIUSA noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
MARCUS AURELIUSDig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUSNeither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
MARCUS AURELIUSLife is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS