Marcus Aurelius Doe Quotations

What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

He who eats my bread, does my will.

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.

...the infallible man does not exist.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.