Meditations Quotes

“Praise does not make anything better or worse. [...] Does an emerald lose its quality if it is not praised?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The best method of defense is not to become like your enemy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“You could be good today, but instead, you choose tomorrow.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Remind yourself what you have been through and had the strength to endure; that the story of your life is fully told and your service completed; how often you have seen beauty, disregarded pleasure and pain, forgone glory and been kind to the unkind.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Stoicism teaches that the key to happiness is self-control; it is only by mastering our emotions and acting rationally and deliberately that true happiness can be achieved. True happiness, then, is inner peace, a sense of settledness.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee”
― Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS