Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

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  Tags in Injury

• Poverty is the mother of crime.

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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Poverty

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Change

• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Man, Find

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

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Bear

• 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.

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  Topics in Future, Inspirational

  Tags in Reason

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

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  Topics in Education

• Men exist for the sake of one another.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

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

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Change

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Philosophy

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Good

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live

• 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.

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

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  Topics in Death, Fear, Inspirational

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinion

• How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think

• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Harmony, Himself

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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