"But in the things which are still superior, even though they are separated from one another, unity in a manner exists, as in the stars." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"This, then, is consistent with the character of a reflecting man--to be neither careless nor impatient nor contemptuous with respect to death, but to wait for it as one of the operations of nature." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"Live as on a mountain." — Marcus Aurelius, Book X #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"And, to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion." — Marcus Aurelius, Book II #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"For this man also is one of those shameless men who must of necessity be in the world." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"In like manner view also the other epochs of time and of whole nations, and see how many after great efforts soon fell and were resolved into the elements." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IV #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"There is nothing new: all things are both familiar and short-lived." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"That which is from fortune is not separated from nature or without an interweaving and involution with the things which are ordered by providence." — Marcus Aurelius, Book II #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"Something like this let thy behavior be in all the other parts of life; let us overlook many things in those who are like antagonists in the gymnasium." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VI #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VI #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"For the interior [parts] ought to be such, and a man ought to be seen by the gods neither dissatisfied with anything nor complaining." — Marcus Aurelius, Book XI #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"Whatever the rational and political [social] faculty finds to be neither intelligent nor social, it properly judges to be inferior to itself." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IV #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration also is added, that the man is compelled: for what else could he do?" — Marcus Aurelius, Book X #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"In like manner, then, neither are the termination and cessation and change of thy whole life a thing to be afraid of." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"But my nature is rational and social; and my city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome, but so far as I am a man, it is the world." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VI #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"But the rational animal is consequently also a political [social] animal." — Marcus Aurelius, Book X #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations