Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it”

“Glory paid to our ashes comes too late”

“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday”

“When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans”

“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.”

“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst”

“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”

“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.”

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

“Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Natures delight.”

“Where a man can live, he can also live well.”

“Each day provides its own gifts”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

“Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”

“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.”

“The robber of your free will, writes Epictetus, does not exist”