Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius

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When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good...

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by George Long - an English classical scholar.

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Do not then consider life a thing of any value. For look at the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space. In this infinity then what is the...

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by George Long - an English classical scholar.

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Words that everyone once used are now obsolete, and so are the men whose names were once on everyone's lips: Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus, and to a lesser degree Scipio and Cato, and yes, even...

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by Scot and David Hicks.

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Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by George Long - an English classical scholar.

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Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by Gregory Hays.

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Take away your opinion, and there is taken away the complaint, Take away the complaint, and the hurt is gone.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by George Long - an English classical scholar.

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Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by Maxwell Staniforth.

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Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by Maxwell Staniforth.

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As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad , and of the sort of society they frequent; and the...

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations - Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Translation by Maxwell Staniforth.

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