Marcus Aurelius Quotations | Page 5

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.