Markus Aurelius > Quotes

“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.”
― Markus Aurelius

“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.”
― Markus Aurelius

“The idle business of show, plays on the stage, flocks of sheep, herds, exercises with spears, a bone cast to little dogs, a bit of bread into fish-ponds, labourings of ants and burden-carrying, runnings about of frightened little mice, puppets pulled by strings- all alike. It is thy duty then in the midst of such things to show good humour and not a proud air; to understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.”
― Markus Aurelius

“3. I am made up of substance and what animates it, and neither one can ever stop existing, any more than it began to.
Every portion of me will be reassigned as another portion of the world, and that in turn transformed into another. Ad
infinitum.
I was produced through one such transformation, and my parents too, and so on back. Ad infinitum.”
― Markus Aurelius