1. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

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2. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

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3. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”

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4. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.”

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5. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; But if anything is within the powers and province of man, Believe that it is within your own compass also.”

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6. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

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7. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul - for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”

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8. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Poverty is the mother of crime.”

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9. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

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10. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

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11. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”

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12. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul—for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these—that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well.”

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13. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”

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14. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

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15. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.”

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16. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Of the things you have, select the best: and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if you did not have them.”

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17. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “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.”

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18. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.”

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19. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well.”

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20. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “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.”

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21. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.”

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22. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”

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23. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

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24. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”

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25. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.”

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