Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. Marcus Aurelius More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius More Quotes From Marcus Aurelius If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius ignoranceselfmistake I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. Marcus Aurelius ignorancewisdomtruth The main thing we were made for is to work with others. Marcus Aurelius made Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher. Marcus Aurelius eventsfireneeds Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them. Marcus Aurelius naturehealinginspirational There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune. Marcus Aurelius good-fortunebearsfortune Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. Marcus Aurelius life-changingunderstandingchange The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy. Marcus Aurelius words-of-wisdomkindenemy Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds. Marcus Aurelius moneydressesmen Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere. Marcus Aurelius holidaywarchildren Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them. Marcus Aurelius wisdombotherattitude Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore? Marcus Aurelius ablepositivelife The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius hatredrevengeinspirational Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle... Marcus Aurelius everlastingphilosophicalform Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe. Marcus Aurelius metamorphosiscorruptionart Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes. Marcus Aurelius thoughtfulmaturitydeath Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . . Marcus Aurelius painattitudethinking Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature. Marcus Aurelius futurestorieslife What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it. Marcus Aurelius exerciseopportunityart Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. Marcus Aurelius gratitudequalitylooks
