Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic Philosopher. He was born on 26 April 121 AD In Rome In Italy. He was the last ruler known as the five good emperors, and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman empire lasting from 27 BC To 180 AD. He was died on 17 March 180 AD In Sirmium. He was a great emperor and philosopher.
Top 72 Quotes Of Marcus Aurelius.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you already have.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
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Confine yourself to the present
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
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Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is done.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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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.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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If you didn’t learn these things in order to demonstrate them in practice, what did you learn them for?
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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.
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Only attend to yourself, and resolve to be a good man in every act that you do.
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Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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To live the good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
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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.
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Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question, what fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
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Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible.
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Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
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To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.
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While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
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No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
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