Marcus Aurelius
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
- Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart.
- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible.
- Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back.
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- Do not try to be on the side of the majority, but live according to your inner laws.
- Each day provides it's own gifts.
- Each day provides its own gifts.
- Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
- Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.
- If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
- If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
- Loss is nothing else but change and change is nature's delight.
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
- Man should fear never beginning to live.
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- The best answer to anger is silence.
- The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
- The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
- The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
- The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
- Think of yourself as dead. you have lived your life. Now, take what's left, and live it properly.
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One.
- We live only now. Everything else is either passed or is unknown.
- You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.