Marcus Aurelius Should Quotations

Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Everything that happens, happens as it should.

You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.