Marcus Aurelius Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

“Poverty is the mother of crime.”

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

“Each day provides its own gifts.”

“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.'”

“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”