Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
• What we do now echoes in eternity.
• We are the other of the other
• No man is happy who does not think himself so.
• Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found…
• In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence
• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
• Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
• All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit…
• All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
• If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which…
• The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
• Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of…
• When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they…
• If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your…
• It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power…
• If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
• The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect…
• How soon will time cover all things.
• The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

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