Marcus Aurelius Quotes

• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Heart

• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Himself

• A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greater

• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

  Manuel Puig

• The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• 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.”

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead – and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Advice

• The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Change/Growth

• Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Life

• Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Change/Growth, Imitation

• Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Now

• 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

• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School

• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Attitude, Fear, Suffering

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Advice, Truth

  Tags in Ethics

• 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

• Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Difficulty

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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