Category: Aurelius

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. – Marcus Aurelius

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. – Marcus Aurelius

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat – Marcus Aurelius

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. – Marcus Aurelius

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. – Marcus Aurelius

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

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. – Marcus Aurelius

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius

Anger cannot be dishonest. – Marcus Aurelius

Confine yourself to the present. – Marcus Aurelius