Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.
• It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we…
• Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.
• The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
• This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
• No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to…
• If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'
• I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
• Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury…
• To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in…
• Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of…
• He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
• Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
• Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
• No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
• Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must…
• To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
• This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.
• One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by…

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