Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Quotes

• “When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see wh...”
• “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 whic...”
• “Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on...”
• “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, ...”
• “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that y...”
• “From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to mak...”
• “All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a ...”
• “We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and th...”
• “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does hims...”
• “Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune,"but "To bear thi...”
• “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you ...”
• “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all you...”
• “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without prete...”
• “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are...”
• “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
• “striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.”
• “Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”
• “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
• “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
• “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
• “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
• “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
• “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
• “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
• “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
• “You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
• “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
• “What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.”
• “Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”
• “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
• “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
• “No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
• “All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”