Marcus Aurelius
Marcus AureliusThe 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.
Change is not to be feared, but to be embraced, for without it, nothing could ever take place.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.
Ephemerality is the nature of things — look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Ethics is best to be enacted rather than to be defined — Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Nothing is that out of which nothing can come, and by the same token, nor can a thing go back to nothing.
