Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

Truth, Everything, Opinion

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Morning, Love, Enjoy

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Happiness, Life, Nature

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Heart, Together

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius

Music, Prayer, Sexual

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Happy, Yourself

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius

Strength, Power, Mind

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Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius

Yourself, Present, Confine

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Best, Revenge, Him

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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Life, Escape, Insane

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Death, Fear, Live

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Mean, Ambition, Idea

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Art, Living

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

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Men, Others, Often

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

Time, Good, Arguing

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Relationship, Love, Yourself

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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Future, Today, Same

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Life, Last, Act

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

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Strength, Within, Beyond

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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Great, Worth, Greater

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Anger, Causes, Grievous

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

Impossible, Difficult, Anyone

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Born: 121

Died: 180

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