A man should be upright, not kept upright.
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you.
All is ephemeral- fame and the famous as well.
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Be thou erect, or be made erect.
Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.
Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the universe.
How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
Live with the gods.
Look beneath the surface: never let a thing's intrinsic quality or worth escape you.
Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Remember that all is opinion.
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life- there, if one must speak out, the real man.
Remember this- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
Say to yourself at daybreak; I shall come across the busybody, the thankless, the overbearing, the treacherous, the envious, the unneighborly. All this has befallen them because they know not good from evil.
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
The intelligence of the universe is social.
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
The sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.
There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.
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.
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
What means all this?
Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence.
You have power over your mind- not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
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