Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements. Marcus Aurelius More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius More Quotes From Marcus Aurelius Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. Marcus Aurelius rift deeds joy Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected. Marcus Aurelius successful men mean Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aurelius happiness inspirational life To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character. Marcus Aurelius perfection character life Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. Marcus Aurelius race self lying Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content. Marcus Aurelius serene divinity take-me If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good. Marcus Aurelius being-real justice men Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it. Marcus Aurelius bears happens way Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. Marcus Aurelius tranquility mind science Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region. Marcus Aurelius campaigns strange life-is Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone shows you it's wrong. This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that it's both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you pleasure and make you popular. Marcus Aurelius community giving two The universe is transformation: life is opinion. Marcus Aurelius transformation opinion life-is We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius horse running inspirational If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death. Marcus Aurelius heaven believe death This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense. Marcus Aurelius agitation perfect character Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be. Marcus Aurelius wind men thinking We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. Marcus Aurelius cooperation feet hands You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. Marcus Aurelius philosophical time men Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. Marcus Aurelius soul mind peace A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something. Marcus Aurelius principles men order
