Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

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

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.

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.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall 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.

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

Men exist for the sake of one another.

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.

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

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