Quotes By Author: Marcus Aurelius
“Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised; and the rememberer and the remembered; and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree; no not anyone with himself; and the whole earth too is a point.”
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“The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”
“That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not”.”
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
“For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.”
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
“If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them.”