Quotes from Marcus Aurelius.The only son to Marcus Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla.

121 - 180 AD
Joined June 2011
What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.
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He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only he who does a certain thing.
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Affect not to set out thy thoughts with curious neat language. Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker.
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Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.
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Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage.
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The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
Rather be like one that is straight of himself, or hath ever been straight, than one that hath been rectified.
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I read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly do I assent to things commonly spoken of.
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How quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: bodies into the matter of the world; their memories into the age and time of the world.
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If thou find anything in this life better than righteousness, than truth, temperance, fortitude, apply thyself unto it with thy whole heart.
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How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Do thou therefore, absolutely and freely, make choice of that which is best, and stick unto it.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
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Spend not thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when by it thou art hindered from some other, better work.
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Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art.
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If even now he were to depart, he is as ready for it as for any other action, which may be performed with modesty and decency.
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