Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Take away the complaint, ‘I have been harmed,’ and the harm is taken away.

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.