Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
- Marcus Aurelius
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
- Marcus Aurelius
I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
- Marcus Aurelius
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
- Marcus Aurelius
Confine yourself to the present.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- Marcus Aurelius
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Marcus Aurelius
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
- Marcus Aurelius
The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.
- Marcus Aurelius
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
- Marcus Aurelius