Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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• When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.

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• Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

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• Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, “This is a misfortune,” but “To bear this worthily is good fortune.”

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• 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.

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• Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

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• Anger cannot be dishonest.

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

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• 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.

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

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• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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• To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

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• 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.

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• The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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• Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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• Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

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

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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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