Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
- Marcus Aurelius

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A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
- Marcus Aurelius

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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self respect.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Poverty is the mother of crime.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
- Marcus Aurelius

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He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius

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That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
- Marcus Aurelius

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The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Marcus Aurelius

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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Each day provides its own gifts.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Life is not merely being alive, but being well.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Be content to seem what you really are.
- Marcus Aurelius

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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
- Marcus Aurelius