Quotes by 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.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

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.

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.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

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.