1,166 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.

Leave other people’s mistakes where they lie.

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one’s fate.

Life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief.