Marcus Aurelius Man Quotations

It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not a vicious man, you are vice itself

Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses

Consider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not, for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And, in short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.

With red hair, a black face, a cloven foot, and blear eyes, you show the world a prodigy, Zoilus, if you are an honest man

A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something

Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud

No man is quick enough to enjoy life

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams

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

You wish to appear, Cotta, a pretty man and a great man at one and the same time: but he who is a pretty man, Cotta, is a very small man

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

However much a man gives, there is more that he withholds

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.