Marcus Aurelius Thee Quotations

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting

Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.