Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

#Literature

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

#Memory

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you...

#Modesty

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

#Order, #Principles

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is...

#Potential

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

#Poverty

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing...

#Pain

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself....

#Beauty, #Praise

You are pretty - we know it; and young - it's true; and rich -...

#Praise

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of...

#People, #Self-esteem

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

#Poetry, #Reading, #Writing

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

#Happiness, #Life, #Nature