Tag: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

At dawn of day, when you dislike being called, have this thought ready: “I am called to man’s labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

But that which is useful is the better.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus