Personal journal · Philosophical literatureEvery instant of time is a pinprick of eternity.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 7.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureBe like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 7.6
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureWaste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 5.6
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureWhat is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 4.0
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureMankind have been created for the sake of one another.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 4.0
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureLove the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 4.0
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureHow 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.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureThe longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same things.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literature’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureNowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureWe all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureTime is a violent torrent; 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.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureAs for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureMark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.8
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureWhatever befalls you was prepared for you beforehand from eternity, and the thread of causes was spinning from everlasting both your existence and this which befalls you.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.8
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureThink of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.8
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.8
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureAll that is in harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.8
Scripture · Religious literatureThus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud. A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.Nagarjuna180★ 3.6
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureIt is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 2.3
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