Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor

Lived from: 121 - 180

Category: Politics

Born: 25 april 121 Died: 16 march 180

  • Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

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  • Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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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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  • A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
    Source: Ta eis heauton  V, 16
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  • Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
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  • Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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  • A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
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  • Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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  • Confine yourself to the present
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  • Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
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  • A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
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  • A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
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  • A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
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  • And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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  • By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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  • Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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  • Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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  • Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
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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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  • Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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  • He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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