Marcus Aurelius quotes Born: 04/26/0121 Died: 03/17/0180 Country: italy

• Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. (Marcus Aurelius) [thing/form]
• Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. (Marcus Aurelius) [nature]
• Men exist for the sake of one another. (Marcus Aurelius) [men]
• 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. (Marcus Aurelius) [death/impressions/desires/mind]
• Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. (Marcus Aurelius) [death/nature]
• That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. (Marcus Aurelius) [bees]
• Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. (Marcus Aurelius) [life/evil/evil]
• 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/quality/thoughts]
• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life. (Marcus Aurelius) [remember/life]
• Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. (Marcus Aurelius) [life/power]
• Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. (Marcus Aurelius) [nature/time/time]
• Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. (Marcus Aurelius) [willpower]
• Where a man can live, he can also live well. (Marcus Aurelius)
• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. (Marcus Aurelius) [harmony/harmony/universe]
• 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) [love]
• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Marcus Aurelius) [pain/thing/power/moment]
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright. (Marcus Aurelius)
• The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack. (Marcus Aurelius) [art/more/dancing/thing]
• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. (Marcus Aurelius) [right]
• Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. (Marcus Aurelius)
• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. (Marcus Aurelius) [power/mind/ability/observation]
• 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/people]
• Your life is what your thoughts make it. (Marcus Aurelius) [life/thoughts]
• And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. (Marcus Aurelius) [give/life]
• Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. (Marcus Aurelius) [human/time/nature/start]
• Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. (Marcus Aurelius) [men]
• If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. (Marcus Aurelius) [power]
• How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. (Marcus Aurelius) [time/look]
• Confine yourself to the present (Marcus Aurelius) [present]
• Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man. (Marcus Aurelius) [remember/power/life/speak]
• Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery. (Marcus Aurelius) [remember/interest/high/time]

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