Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor

Lived from: 121 - 180

Category: Politics

Born: 25 april 121 Died: 16 march 180

Quotes 21 till 40 of 72.

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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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  • How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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  • How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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  • How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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  • I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.
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  • If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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  • If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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  • If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
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  • In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
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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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  • It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.
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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; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
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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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  • Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
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  • Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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  • Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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  • Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
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  • Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
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  • Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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  • Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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