--- title: "6 Forgotten Quotes By Marcus Aurelius" description: "6 Forgotten quotes by Marcus Aurelius. Plus more from Marcus Aurelius and more Forgotten sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/marcus-aurelius-139_marcus-aurelius_soon-you-will-have-forgotten-everything_859195.jpg" --- > [“Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/soon-you-will-have-forgotten-everything-soon-everybody-will-have/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/marcus-aurelius-139_marcus-aurelius_soon-you-will-have-forgotten-everything_859195.jpg) > [Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/or-is-it-your-reputation-that-s-bothering-you-but-look-at-how-soon-we/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/marcus-aurelius-139_abyss_or-is-it-your-reputation-that-s-botherin_1340097.jpg) > [Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/can-we-wonder-that-men-perish-and-are-forgotten-when-their-noblest-2/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/marcus-aurelius-139_death_can-we-wonder-that-men-perish-and-are-fo_1479659.jpg) > [“In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/in-a-little-while-you-will-have-forgotten-everything-in-a-little/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43b/marcus-aurelius-139_quote_in-a-little-while-you-will-have-forgotte_1513722.jpg) > [Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/soon-you-will-have-forgotten-the-world-and-soon-the-world-will-have/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/marcus-aurelius-139_forgotten_soon-you-will-have-forgotten-the-world-a_1538199.jpg) > [The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-time-is-at-hand-when-you-will-have-forgotten-everything-and-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9a/marcus-aurelius-139_forgotten_the-time-is-at-hand-when-you-will-have-f_3049278.jpg) ## Other authors on Forgotten ## More by Marcus Aurelius > [A man should be upright, not kept upright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/a-man-should-be-upright-not-kept-upright/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Everything is mere opinion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/everything-is-mere-opinion/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/if-any-man-has-done-wrong-the-harm-is-his-own-but-perhaps-he-has-not/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/pray-look-upon-the-plants-and-birds-the-ants-spiders-and-bees-and-you/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/we-should-remark-the-grace-and-fascination-that-there-is-even-in-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/my-true-self-is-free-i-cannot-be-contained/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-best-revenge-is-to-be-unlike-him-who-performed-the-injury/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/nothing-befalls-any-man-which-he-is-not-fitted-to-endure/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/adorn-thyself-with-simplicity-and-with-indifference-towards-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/let-it-be-your-constant-method-to-look-into-the-design-of-people-s/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/our-life-is-a-warfare-and-a-mere-pilgrimage/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/if-therefore-it-be-a-thing-external-that-causes-thy-grief-know-that/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/frightened-of-change-but-what-can-exist-without-it-what-s-closer-to/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/we-are-too-much-accustomed-to-attribute-to-a-single-cause-that-which/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/at-dawn-when-you-have-trouble-getting-out-of-bed-tell-yourself-i-have/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forgotten/marcus-aurelius/#itemlist", "name": "6 Forgotten Quotes By Marcus Aurelius", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Soon, you will have forgotten everything. 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