--- title: "15 Gone Quotes By Marcus Aurelius" description: "15 Gone quotes by Marcus Aurelius. Plus more from Marcus Aurelius and more Gone sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/marcus-aurelius-139_conform_that-which-comes-after-ever-conforms-to_1368781.jpg" --- > [That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/that-which-comes-after-ever-conforms-to-that-which-has-gone-before/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/marcus-aurelius-139_conform_that-which-comes-after-ever-conforms-to_1368781.jpg) > [Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/your-time-has-a-limit-set-to-it-use-it-then-to-advance-your/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29d/marcus-aurelius-139_buddhism_your-time-has-a-limit-set-to-it-use-it-t_2745485.jpg) > [How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/how-many-together-with-whom-i-came-into-the-world-are-already-gone/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3da/marcus-aurelius-139_already-gone_how-many-together-with-whom-i-came-into_1005896.jpg) > [Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/remind-oneself-continually-of-one-of-those-who-practiced-virtue-in/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4a/marcus-aurelius-139_character_remind-oneself-continually-of-one-of-tho_2920007.jpg) > [“How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/how-many-of-them-who-came-into-the-world-at-the-same-time-when-i-did/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd4/marcus-aurelius-139_gone_how-many-of-them-who-came-into-the-world_404541.jpg) > [The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-passing-minute-is-every-man-s-equal-possession-but-what-has-once/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/marcus-aurelius-139_equal_the-passing-minute-is-every-man-s-equal_960370.jpg) > [There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/there-is-a-limit-circumscribed-to-your-time-if-you-do-not-use-it-to/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/marcus-aurelius-139_clear_there-is-a-limit-circumscribed-to-your-t_1529890.jpg) > [Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/remember-that-man-lives-only-in-the-present-in-this-fleeting-instant/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a0/marcus-aurelius-139_fleeting_remember-that-man-lives-only-in-the-pres_866198.jpg) > [On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/on-the-occasion-of-every-act-ask-thyself-how-is-this-with-respect-to/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/marcus-aurelius-139_asks_on-the-occasion-of-every-act-ask-thyself_3007216.jpg) > [Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/remember-that-even-if-you-were-to-live-for-three-thousand-years-or/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/marcus-aurelius-139_creatures_remember-that-even-if-you-were-to-live-f_570255.jpg) > [Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/live-a-good-life-if-there-are-gods-and-they-are-just-then-they-will/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/314/marcus-aurelius-139_atheism_live-a-good-life-if-there-are-gods-and-t_393944.jpg) > [Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/keep-in-mind-how-fast-things-pass-by-and-are-gone-those-that-are-now/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/marcus-aurelius-139_chasms_keep-in-mind-how-fast-things-pass-by-and_858050.jpg) > [It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/it-is-not-the-actions-of-others-which-trouble-us-for-those-actions/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d6/marcus-aurelius-139_action_it-is-not-the-actions-of-others-which-tr_816960.jpg) > [Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/think-of-all-the-years-passed-by-in-which-you-said-to-yourself-i-ll/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/308/marcus-aurelius-139_again-and-again_think-of-all-the-years-passed-by-in-whic_1365365.jpg) > [Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/letting-go-all-else-cling-to-the-following-few-truths-remember-that/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dc/marcus-aurelius-139_corners_letting-go-all-else-cling-to-the-followi_560065.jpg) ## Other authors on Gone ## 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/gone/marcus-aurelius/#itemlist", "name": "15 Gone Quotes By Marcus Aurelius", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcus Aurelius" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/that-which-comes-after-ever-conforms-to-that-which-has-gone-before/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/marcus-aurelius-139_conform_that-which-comes-after-ever-conforms-to_1368781.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/marcus-aurelius-139_conform_that-which-comes-after-ever-conforms-to_1368781.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/marcus-aurelius-139_conform_that-which-comes-after-ever-conforms-to_1368781.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.” — Marcus Aurelius", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Your time has a limit set to it. 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Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcus Aurelius" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/on-the-occasion-of-every-act-ask-thyself-how-is-this-with-respect-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/marcus-aurelius-139_asks_on-the-occasion-of-every-act-ask-thyself_3007216.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/marcus-aurelius-139_asks_on-the-occasion-of-every-act-ask-thyself_3007216.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/marcus-aurelius-139_asks_on-the-occasion-of-every-act-ask-thyself_3007216.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? 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