Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The great happiness in life is not to donate but to serve.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Each had done more good than forty men would or could have.

Service is that which is done for love's sake for another. It is not true service which is paid with wages

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

It costs you something to do good!

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.