How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus More Quotes From Marcus Aurelius Antoninus How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.' Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Never 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. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
