Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Citations Marcus Aurelius

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away... view

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A man should be upright, not be kept upright... view

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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury... view

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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late.. view

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing... view

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Your life is what your thoughts make it... view

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long... view

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength... view

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Where a man can live, he can also live well... view

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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love... view

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life... view

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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time... view

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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat... view

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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne... view

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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that... view

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature... view

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.. view

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane... view

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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions... view

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To the wise, life is a problem.. view

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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge... view

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To live happily is an inward power of the soul... view

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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with... view

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The universe is change.. view

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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle... view

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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts... view

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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer... view

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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious... view

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The universe is transformation.. view

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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one... view

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present... view

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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks... view

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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others... view

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If it is not right do not do it.. view

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live... view

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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable.. view

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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live... view

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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already... view

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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil... view

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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too... view

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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig... view

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight... view

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