Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. Marcus Aurelius More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius More Quotes From Marcus Aurelius That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within. Marcus Aurelius harmhe-manmen Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it. Marcus Aurelius donemindmen When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others. Marcus Aurelius definingbedmorning Let no act be done without purpose. Marcus Aurelius donepurpose The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct. Marcus Aurelius testsdyingdeath In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. Marcus Aurelius passionangermen Everything is mere opinion. Marcus Aurelius mereopinion Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic. Marcus Aurelius togetherorderscience 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 workmorningmen Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. Marcus Aurelius philosophyhistoryart Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil. Marcus Aurelius painevilmen Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty. Marcus Aurelius serioussimplejustice He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life. Marcus Aurelius fear-of-deathevilreality Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet . Marcus Aurelius gimletsindividualsubstance You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow. Marcus Aurelius rejectionmindmen There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. Marcus Aurelius realmenlying External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. Marcus Aurelius eraseassessmentproblem Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please. Marcus Aurelius opinionspiritualthinking Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display. Marcus Aurelius atheismrunningmen The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives. Marcus Aurelius he-manmenscience
