Famous Quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Below are famous quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations - Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD).

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

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

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