Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
- Marcus Aurelius
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
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Marcus Aurelius
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
- Marcus Aurelius
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
- Marcus Aurelius
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
- Marcus Aurelius
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
- Marcus Aurelius
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
- Marcus Aurelius
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
- Marcus Aurelius
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
- Marcus Aurelius