Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

Time, Strong, Place

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

Beauty, Beautiful, Nothing

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

Universe, Lives, Himself

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

Good, Within, Ready

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

Mother, Poverty, Crime

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

Change, Long, Wish

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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

Good, Thinking, After

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

Death, Mind, Hard

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

Men, Live, Real

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

Future, Past, Rose

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

Science, Life, Power

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

Good, Future, Remember

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

Education, Often, Natural

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

Everything, Find, Happens

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus Aurelius

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

Thoughts, Soul, Color

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

Sense, Injury, Reject

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

Nature, Nothing, Happens

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Character, Mind, Thoughts

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

Life, Good, Evil

Be content to seem what you really are.
Marcus Aurelius

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

Nature, Death, Else

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

Life, Last, Act

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

Change, Nature, Nothing

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Nationality: Roman

Born: 121

Died: 180

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