Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. Marcus Aelius Aurelius More Quotes by Marcus Aelius Aurelius More Quotes From Marcus Aelius Aurelius Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Marcus Aelius Aurelius A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse. Marcus Aelius Aurelius How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. Marcus Aelius Aurelius If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aelius Aurelius A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. Marcus Aelius Aurelius I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. Marcus Aelius Aurelius I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Marcus Aelius Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aelius Aurelius The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack. Marcus Aelius Aurelius
