Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

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

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

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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.’

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

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