All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
-
-
If 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 AURELIUS -
Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The 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 AURELIUS -
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Men exist for the sake of one another.
MARCUS AURELIUS