Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

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.

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.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

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.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

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

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

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.