Marcus Aurelius quotes

121–180 · Rome

• Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

• Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

• Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

• Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.