Marcus Aurelius

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
-Marcus Aurelius

All is ephemeral – fame and the famous as well.
-Marcus Aurelius

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

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
-Marcus Aurelius

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
-Marcus Aurelius

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
-Marcus Aurelius

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
-Marcus Aurelius

A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.
-Marcus Aurelius

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
-Marcus Aurelius