Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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  Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left, and live it properly.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Properly, Dead
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  Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Opinion, Fact
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  Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Time

• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Change

• Men exist for the sake of one another.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

• Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live
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  Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Remember

• Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Place

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Person

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Reason

• Be content to seem what you really are.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Really

• Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change/Growth, Understanding

• The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prayer

• And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful

• To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Problem

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Death, Nature

  Tags in Like

Marcus Aurelius (122)

Birth:	26th April, 0121
Death:	17th March, 0180
Nationality:	Roman
Profession:	Emperor, Philosopher

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Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.

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