Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.
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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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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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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

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

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

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

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

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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

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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

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The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the man of understanding in his own actions.

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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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Author Bio

  • NameMarcus Aurelius
  • DescriptionEmperor of Ancient Rome
  • AliasesMarcus Aurelius
  • BornApril 26, 121
  • DiedMarch 17, 180
  • CountryRoman Empire
  • ProfessionEmperor