Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
- Marcus Aurelius
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
- Marcus Aurelius
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
- Marcus Aurelius
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.
- Marcus Aurelius
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
- Marcus Aurelius
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
- Marcus Aurelius
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.
- Marcus Aurelius
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
- Marcus Aurelius