Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Marcus Aurelius

Profession : Roman Emperor

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

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Poverty is the mother of crime.

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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

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Confine yourself to the present.

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

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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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

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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

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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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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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