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.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Topics: Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication...

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication...

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day,...

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day,...

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do...

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do...

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective,...

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective,...

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly,...

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly,...

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me...

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew...

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew...

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is

Real love is knowing someone's weaknesses and not taking advantage of them. Knowing their flaws...

Real love is knowing someone's weaknesses and not taking advantage of them. Knowing their flaws...

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.