Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

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  Tags in Need, Happiness

• Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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

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  Tags in Problem

• 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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  Topics in Power, Soul

• 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.

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  Tags in Place

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

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  Tags in Person

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

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• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Color, Become

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

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  Tags in Prayer

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

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• The only wealth you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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  Tags in Wealth, Forever

• 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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  Topics in Life

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happiness

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

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  Tags in Injury

• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

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  Tags in Like

• The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

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• That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

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

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Character

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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