What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. Marcus Aurelius More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius More Quotes From Marcus Aurelius Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow. Marcus Aurelius unnecessary action time 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 harm he-man men 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 done mind men 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 defining bed morning Let no act be done without purpose. Marcus Aurelius done purpose The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct. Marcus Aurelius tests dying death 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 passion anger men Everything is mere opinion. Marcus Aurelius mere opinion 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 together order science 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 work morning men Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. Marcus Aurelius philosophy history art 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 pain evil men 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 serious simple justice 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-death evil reality 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 gimlets individual substance 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 rejection mind men 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 real men lying External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. Marcus Aurelius erase assessment problem Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please. Marcus Aurelius opinion spiritual thinking 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 atheism running men
