1,166 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature – the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure.

You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.

Thanks to the gods I didn’t spend much time while growing up with my grandfather’s mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

Praise adds nothing to beauty – makes it neither better nor worse.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What’s surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, “I have a purpose,” and the other goods as well.