Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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