Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

"The best answer to anger is silence."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"You always own the option of having no opinion."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

"Soon you will have forgotten all things, and all things will have forgotten you."

"Dwell on the beauty of life."

"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"Leave the mistakes of others where they lie."

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

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Everything you hear is an opinion not a fact."

"For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived."

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man."

"To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony."

"For we carry our fate with us... and it carries us."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

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

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

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