Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. – Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – Marcus Aurelius
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. – Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. – Marcus Aurelius
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. – Marcus Aurelius
Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it. – 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
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. – Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. – Marcus Aurelius
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. – Marcus Aurelius
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. – Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest. – Marcus Aurelius
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. – Marcus Aurelius
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius
Dig within. There lies the well-spring of good: ever dig, and it will ever flow. – Marcus Aurelius
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. – Marcus Aurelius
