Marcus Aurelius Quotes




"Anger cannot be dishonest."

"Each day provides its own gifts."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

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

"A man should be upright, not kept upright."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life."

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

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

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him."

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

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

"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."

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

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

"Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you."

"You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

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

"The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing."

"Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to."

"A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something."

"Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

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

"Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."

"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."

"Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach."

"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."

"Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it."

 

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com

 

 

 

 

 

 


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