1,166 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

If it’s in your control, why do you do it? If it’s in someone else’s control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.

The man who doesn’t know what the universe is doesn’t know where he lives.

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

I am called to man’s labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. – Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.