3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
