Best Marcus Aurelius Quotes

 

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman ruler from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last rulers known as the Five Good Emperors, and the last leader of the Pax Romana, a time of relative harmony and stability for the Roman Empire. He served as a Roman representative in 140, 145, and 161.

He is one of the most regarded Roman heads, Marcus Aurelius is best associated with his standard driven by reason and his scholarly enthusiasm for Stoicism – a way of thinking of individual ethics informed by its arrangement of rationale.

Here are some of the Marcus Aurelius Quotes  

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – 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. – Marcus Aurelius

 

 

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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

 

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Each day provides its own gifts. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. – Marcus Aurelius

 

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. – Marcus Aurelius

 

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. – Marcus Aurelius

 

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus 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 opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. – Marcus Aurelius

 

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Do every act of your life as if it were your last. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight. – Marcus Aurelius

 

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. – Marcus Aurelius

 

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than is his own soul. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. – Marcus Aurelius

 

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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

 

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. – Marcus Aurelius

 

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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

 

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. – Marcus Aurelius

 

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. – Marcus Aurelius

 

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. – Marcus Aurelius

 

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. – Marcus Aurelius

 

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. – Marcus Aurelius

 

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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

 

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Because a thing seem difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. – Marcus Aurelius

 

The universe is transformation: life is opinion. – Marcus Aurelius

 

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. – Marcus Aurelius

 

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. – Marcus Aurelius

 

 

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

 

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

 

50 Best Marcus Aurelius Quotes

 

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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. – Marcus Aurelius

 

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. – Marcus Aurelius

 

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Where a man can live, he can also live well. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. – Marcus Aurelius

 

 

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Poverty is the mother of crime. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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

 

Anger cannot be dishonest. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Be content to seem what you really are. – Marcus 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. – Marcus Aurelius

 

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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

 

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’ – Marcus Aurelius

 

The act of dying is one of the acts of life. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Men exist for the sake of one another. – Marcus Aurelius

 

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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

 

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. – Marcus Aurelius

 

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. – Marcus Aurelius

 

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