Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Marcus Aurelius

Profession : Roman Emperor

Each day provides its own gifts.

Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

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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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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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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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

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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

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

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

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

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

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

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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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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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