Marcus Aurelius quotes

“Each day provides its own gifts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Men exist for the sake of one another.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Anger cannot be dishonest.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Where a man can live, he can also live well.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.”

— Marcus Aurelius