Marcus Aurelius
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
"Poverty is the mother of crime."
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
"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."
"Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear." - Meditations
"'A cucumber is bitter.' Throw it away. 'There are briars in the road.' Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made in the world?'" - Meditations
"Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away." - Meditations
"Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?" - Meditations
"Nothing is evil which is according to nature." - Meditations
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Meditations
"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 opinion of himself than on the opinion of others." - Meditations
"How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on." - Meditations
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts." - Meditations
"Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle." - Meditations, II, 14
"Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly." - Meditations, IV, 10
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Meditations, IV, 3
"A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something." - Meditations, IX, 5
