Marcus Aurelius Quotes - Page 6

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• Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

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  Mind, Failing, Unhappiness

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• What we do now echoes in eternity.

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  Inspirational, Life, Echoes

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• Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

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  Names, Blame, Forget

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• Live each day as if it be your last.

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  Time, Each Day, Lasts

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• Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

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  Imagination, Crushed, Whole

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.108, Modern Library

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• Do not be ashamed of help.

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  Helping, Ashamed

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• Submit to the fate of your own free will.

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  Fate, Free Will, Submit

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

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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  Integrity, Years, Over You

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Remember that all is opinion.

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  Criticism, Opinion, Remember

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (15), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

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  Opinion, Assumption, Judgment

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

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  Truth, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

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• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

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  Stoicism, Thrive, Feels

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.39, Modern Library

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• If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.

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  Stupid, People, Atoms

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.104, Modern Library

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• 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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  Strong, Time, Passing By

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• 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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  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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

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  Change, Philosophical, Grief

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• Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

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  Fate, Play, Matter

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.61, Modern Library

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• Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

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  Change, Done, Baths

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

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  Philosophical, Ambition, Men

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

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Self Confidence

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.50, Enhanced Media Publishing

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

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  Happiness, Peace, Philosophical

  Attributed in "The Life You Were Born to Live : Finding Your Life Purpose" by Dan Millman, (Pt. 2, Ch. 2), 1995.

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• It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

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  Men, Duty

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• Everything that happens, happens as it should.

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  Should, Happens

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