More From Marcus Aurelius
- "Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."
- "A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions."
- "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."
More In Life
- "Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."― Richard L. Evans
- "Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."― William Wordsworth
- "Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."― Marilyn Hacker