Marcus Aurelius Quotes

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Grapes.
Unripe...ripened...then raisins.
Constant transitions.
Not the 'not' but the 'not yet.'

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

What happens to each of us is ordered. It furthers our destiny.

Yes, you can--if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. (Hays translation)

Who is responsible for our own restlessness.
That no one obstructs us.
That it's all in how you perceive it.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.

Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.

No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.

Remind yourself what you've been through and what you've had the strength to endure.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)

Epithets for yourself: Upright. Modest. Straightforward. Sane. Cooperative. Try not to exchange for others.