Top 783 Quotes & Sayings by Marcus Aurelius
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Roman leader Marcus Aurelius.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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.
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.'
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Confine yourself to the present.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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.
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.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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.
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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.
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.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
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