Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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Marcus Aurelius


“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”
“You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.”
“Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from & what they seek out.”
“You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.”
“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.”
“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter”
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
“It’s all in how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperception at will, like rounding the point.”
“Be content to seem what you really are.”
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.”
“You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.”
“It’s unfortunate that this has happened. No. It’s fortunate that this has happened and I’ve remained unharmed.”
“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
“Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.”
“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”
“It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.”
“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.”
“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.”
“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.”
“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”
“It’s all in how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperception at will, like rounding the point.”
“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”
“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”
“To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference”

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