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 universe is flux, life is opinion.

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All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

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You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to ...

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We are the other of the other

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Our thoughts is what our life make it

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

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

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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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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.

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

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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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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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Author Bio

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