--- title: "8 Short Quotes By Marcus Aurelius" description: "8 Short quotes by Marcus Aurelius. Plus more from Marcus Aurelius and more Short sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/marcus-aurelius-139_help-me_reverence-the-gods-and-help-men-short-is_226720.jpg" --- > [Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/reverence-the-gods-and-help-men-short-is-life/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/marcus-aurelius-139_help-me_reverence-the-gods-and-help-men-short-is_226720.jpg) > [Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/always-take-the-short-cut-and-that-is-the-rational-one-therefore-say/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92c/marcus-aurelius-139_cutting_always-take-the-short-cut-and-that-is-th_1244897.jpg) > [Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/always-run-to-the-short-way-and-the-short-way-is-the-natural/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/marcus-aurelius-139_artifice_always-run-to-the-short-way-and-the-shor_1436656.jpg) > [Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/short-is-the-little-which-remains-to-thee-of-life-live-as-on-a/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/marcus-aurelius-139_climbing_short-is-the-little-which-remains-to-the_1833327.jpg) > [Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/life-is-short-that-s-all-there-is-to-say-get-what-you-can-from-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc8/marcus-aurelius-139_life_life-is-short-that-s-all-there-is-to-say_2577270.jpg) > [“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/casting-aside-other-things-hold-to-the-precious-few-and-besides-bear/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/852/marcus-aurelius-139_brief_casting-aside-other-things-hold-to-the-p_2723018.jpg) > [Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/discard-everything-except-these-few-truths-we-can-live-only-in-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c3/marcus-aurelius-139_brief_discard-everything-except-these-few-trut_2928030.jpg) > [Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/short-is-the-little-time-which-remains-to-thee-of-life-live-as-on-a/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/098/marcus-aurelius-139_life_short-is-the-little-time-which-remains-t_2997754.jpg) ## Other authors on Short ## 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/short/marcus-aurelius/#itemlist", "name": "8 Short Quotes By Marcus Aurelius", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Reverence the gods, and help men. 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