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Marcus Aurelius Quotes | Quotes said by Marcus Aurelius

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #1

    …praise does not make anything better or worse.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #2

    A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #3

    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 the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #4

    A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #5

    A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #6

    A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #7

    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.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #8

    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.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #9

    Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #10

    Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #11

    Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #12

    All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #13

    All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #14

    All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #15

    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 to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #16

    And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #17

    Anger cannot be dishonest.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #18

    Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #19

    Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #20

    As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: What is his point of reference here? But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #21

    At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?

    —But it’s nicer here…

    So you were born to feel ‘nice’? Instead of doings things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

    —But we have to sleep sometime…

    Agreed. But nature set a limit on that—as it did on eating and drinking. And you’re over the limit. You’ve had more than enough of that. But not of working. There you’re still below your quota. You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. Do you have less respect for your own nature than the engraver does for engraving, the dancer for dance, the miser for money or the social climber for status? When they’re really possessed by what they do, they’d rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #22

    Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #23

    Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #24

    Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #25

    Blame and praise have no true effects.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #26

    Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #27

    Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #28

    Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #29

    Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

  • Marcus Aurelius Quote #30

    Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

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