Marcus Aurelius Quotes

121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
quotes
50
topics
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“Confine yourself to the present”
Present
“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
Cooperation
“Your life is what your thoughts make it.”
Life and Living
“Where a man can live, he can also live well.”
Enjoyment
“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.”
Integrity
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
Soul
“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”
Action
“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Happiness
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Injury
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
Losers and Losing
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Good and Evil
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
Integrity
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
Endurance
“The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.”
Wisdom
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
Environmentalism
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
Death and Dying
“Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”
Fate
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Harmony
“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”
Life and Living
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.”
Fulfillment
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Anger
“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”
Anger
“Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.”
Cycles
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Fear
“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”
Opinions
“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.”
Life and Living
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Thoughts and Thinking
“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
Action
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
Action