Marcus Aurelius Quotes - Page 8

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• A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

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  Life Is, Persons

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• Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

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  Fate, May, Welcome

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

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  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

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  Men, Mind, Done

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• If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

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  Good Life, Men, Fearless

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• The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

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  Words Of Wisdom, Enemy, Kind

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.35, Everyman's Library

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• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

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  Nature, Opportunity, May

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• A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

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  Life, Happiness, Positive Thinking

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• Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

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  Bothering You, Endless Time, Hands

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.38, Modern Library

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

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  Yesterday, Live For Today, Too Late

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• Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

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  Life, Positive, Able

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.139, Modern Library

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• How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

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  Ridiculous, Strange, Surprise

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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• A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

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  Men, Done, Undone

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

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• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Talking

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• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

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  Night, Definitions, Life Is

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• A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

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  Taken, Hunting, Men

  "Meditations".

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• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

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  Umpires, Majority, Too Much

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• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

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  Giving Up, Decision, Abuse

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• The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

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  Inspirational, Fire, Flames

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

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  Gratitude, Sadness, Expression

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

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  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

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  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'

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  Past, Mind, Endurance

  Marcus Aurelius (1997). “Meditations”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

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• Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

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  Taken, Complaining, Harm

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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