Famous Marcus Aurelius Quotations

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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
by Marcus Aurelius
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours."
by Marcus Aurelius
"The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"'Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.'"
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"A candour affected is a dagger concealed."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission."
by Marcus Aurelius
"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions"
by Marcus Aurelius
"A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well."
by Marcus Aurelius
"All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously."
by Marcus Aurelius
"All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself."
by Marcus Aurelius
"As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"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 divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it"
by Marcus Aurelius
"Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity."
by Marcus Aurelius
"By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered"
by Marcus Aurelius
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Galla will, and will not comply with my wishes and I cannot tell with her willing and not willing, what she wills"
by Marcus Aurelius
"He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen"
by Marcus Aurelius
"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others"
by Marcus Aurelius
"If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it."
by Marcus Aurelius
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.'"
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"In the life of a man, his time is but a moment...his sense, a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul, as dreams, and vapors"
by Marcus Aurelius
"Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?"
by Marcus Aurelius
"It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil."
by Marcus Aurelius
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live"
by Marcus Aurelius
"It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee"
by Marcus Aurelius
"Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
by Marcus Aurelius
"One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding."
by Marcus Aurelius
"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"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 not apt to fall."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is"
by Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere"
by Marcus Aurelius
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action."
by Marcus Aurelius
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


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