QUOTES by Marcus Aurelius
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He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only he who does a certain thing.
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As it is with a play, so it is with life – what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is. It is not important at what point you stop. Stop wherever you will – only make sure that you round it off with a good ending.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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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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Things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; so our perturbations come only from our inner opinions.
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If you lost the capacity to read, or play music, you would think it was a disaster, but you think nothing of losing the capacity to be honest, decent and civilized.
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As you are careful when you walk not to step on a nail or turn your ankle, so you should take care not to do any injury to your character at the same time.
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Don’t let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.
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Most of us dread the deadening of the body and will do anything to avoid it. About the deadening of the soul, however, we don’t care one iota.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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I say that virtue is more valuable than wealth to the same degree that eyes are more valuable than fingernails.
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Either you’re going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
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A boxer derives the greatest advantage from his sparring partner – and my accuser is my sparring partner. He trains me in patience, civility and even temper.
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When I see that one thing [virtue] is supreme and most important, I cannot say that something else is, just to make you happy.
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No one objects to what is useful to him. To be of use to others is natural. Then don’t object to what is useful to you – being of use.
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Your three components: body, breath, mind. Two are yours in trust; to the third alone you have clear title.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good, just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying this, whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.
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Death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure — all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.
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The mind in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself. Is undisturbed, except for its own disturbances. Knows no obstructions, except those from within.
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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To the rational animal the same act is at once according to nature and according to reason.
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Whatever man you meet with, immediately say to yourself: “What opinions has this man about good and bad?”
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more will you see?
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Since the greatest part of what we say and do is unnecessary, dispensing with such activities affords a man more leisure and less uneasiness.
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A vine cannot behave olively, nor an olive tree vinely – it is impossible, inconceivable. No more can a human being wholly efface his native disposition.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in your power. Take away then, when you choose, your opinion, and like a mariner who has rounded the headland, you will find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.
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Someone bathes in haste; don’t say he bathes badly, but in haste. Someone drinks a lot of wine; don’t say he drinks badly, but a lot. Until you know their reasons, how do you know that their actions are vicious?
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
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Don’t believe your situation is genuinely bad – no one can make you do that. Is there smoke in the house? If it’s not suffocating, I will stay indoors; if it proves too much, I’ll leave. Always remember – the door is open.
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
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The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess.
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A rock is thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up.
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Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.
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