1,166 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these – that where a man can live, there – if he will – he can also live well.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That’s all you need to know.

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one’s back is counterproductive.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads.

Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?

Death – a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Search men’s governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something.

Love the people with whom fate brings you together.