Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
- Marcus Aurelius
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
- Marcus Aurelius
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
- Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.
- Marcus Aurelius
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
- Marcus Aurelius
The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
- Marcus Aurelius
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
- Marcus Aurelius
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
- Marcus Aurelius
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
- Marcus Aurelius