Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#revenge #enemy

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#goodness #integrity #morality #death

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#inspirational

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#spiritual #change

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#incarnation #mind-over-body #soul #meditation

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#self-confidence #self-contentment #spring

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#honesty #self-respect #respect

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#gossip #inspirational #integrity #inspirational

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#inspirational

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#ambition