Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

Vice is its own reward.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

…unjust and ethically unacceptable.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

Vices are their own punishment