Quotes by Aurelius, Marcus

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

Aurelius, Marcus on endurance
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"Where a man can live, he can also live well."

Aurelius, Marcus on joy
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"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

Aurelius, Marcus on environment
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on fate
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"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."

Aurelius, Marcus on fate
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on fear
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on focus
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

Aurelius, Marcus on fulfillment
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

Aurelius, Marcus on 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."

Aurelius, Marcus on goodness
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

Aurelius, Marcus on harmony
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on humankind
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

Aurelius, Marcus on injury
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Aurelius, Marcus on integrity
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"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

Aurelius, Marcus on integrity
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on judgment and judges
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Aurelius, Marcus on anger
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"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."

Aurelius, Marcus on anger
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

Aurelius, Marcus on losers and losing
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on motives
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"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

Aurelius, Marcus on opinions
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on peace
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"Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man."

Aurelius, Marcus on persuasion
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"Confine yourself to the present"

Aurelius, Marcus on present
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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."

Aurelius, Marcus on self-esteem
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"Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery."

Aurelius, Marcus on self-interest
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"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."

Aurelius, Marcus on sociology
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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

Aurelius, Marcus on soul
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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