Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

• A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Greatness, Men

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Success, Lying, Military

• There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Real, Lying, Men

• A man should be upright, not kept upright.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Integrity, Military

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (5), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Lying, Wellspring

• Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Character, Men

• How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

• Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Race, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

• Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Real, Self Esteem

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 38), circa 170.

• I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Lying, Practice

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

• The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Inspiration, Mean

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Lying, People

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.239, Modern Library

• Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to
  remember that law rules all.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Law, Simplicity

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Gentleman, Would Be

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 2,

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