Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. – Marcus Aurelius
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. – Marcus Aurelius
Men exist for the sake of one another. – Marcus Aurelius
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. – Marcus Aurelius
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. – Marcus Aurelius
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. – Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius
Do every act of your life as if it were your last. – Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. – Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. – Marcus Aurelius
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. – Marcus Aurelius
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. – Marcus Aurelius
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. – Marcus Aurelius
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. – Marcus Aurelius
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. – Marcus Aurelius
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. – Marcus Aurelius
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday. – Marcus Aurelius
