Famous Quotes

Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
• The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
• The universe is change 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.
• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
• To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
• Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
• 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.
• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
• Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
• When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
• When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
• You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.