« All Human Quotes · Marcus Aurelius's Page
Human Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
- Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among…
- As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things…
- Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
- Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate…
- Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once…
- From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible…
- In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin