Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?
Marcus AureliusTags: inspirational
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
Marcus AureliusNo one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.
Marcus AureliusWhat we do now echoes in eternity.
Marcus AureliusWe are the other of the other
Marcus AureliusNo man is happy who does not think himself so.
Marcus AureliusTags: happiness
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.
Marcus AureliusIn an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence
Marcus AureliusHere is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Marcus AureliusTags: inspirational
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Marcus AureliusTags: character public-opinion
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