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Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Life

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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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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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

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

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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

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Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Nature

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

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

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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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.

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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.

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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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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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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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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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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for 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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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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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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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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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

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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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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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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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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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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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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

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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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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

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

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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.

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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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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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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

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Browse 85 quotes attributed to Marcus Aurelius, listed in the source data as a Roman Soldier, organized around themes such as Life, Nature, Time. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.