Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Life, Death, Stoicism and Leadership

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

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.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Search men’s governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The controlling intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.