Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
• Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome…
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
• No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
• Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
• If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth,…
• Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as…
• Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
• Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
• A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for…
• Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
• In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then…
• Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your…
• Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.
• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is…
• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
• In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would…
• So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however…
• If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and…
• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to…

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