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Marcus Aurelius [121-180] Roman

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Soldier, Roman emperor

Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. Marcus Aurelius was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.	Life	46
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.	Truth	102
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.	Best	103
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.	Love, Morning	104
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.	Power, Strength	105
Our life is what our thoughts make it.	Life	106
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.		107
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.	Good, Men, Time	108
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.	Wisdom	109
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.	Future	110
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.	Death, Fear	111
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.	Strength	112
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.	Inspirational, Love	113
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.		114
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.	Time	115
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.	Best	116
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.		117
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.	Men	118
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.	Life, Power, Science	119
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.	Work	120
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.		121
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.	Good, Time	122
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.	Power	123
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.	Anger	124
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.		125
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.	Art, Life	126
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.		201
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.	Happiness, Nature	202
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.		203
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.	Good, Inspirational	204
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.	Beauty	205
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.	Change, Nature	206
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.	Art	207
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.		208
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.	Good, Nature	209
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.	Design	210
Men exist for the sake of one another.	Men	211
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.	Future	212
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.		213
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.	Men	214
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.	Peace	215
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.		216
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.		217
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.	Education	218
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.		219
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.	Death, Nature	220
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.		221
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.		222
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.		223
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.		224
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.	Death	225
Where a man can live, he can also live well.		226
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.	Relationship	301
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.	Nature	302
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.	Change, Nature	303
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.		304
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.	Success	305
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.	Great	306
Anger cannot be dishonest.	Anger	307
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.		308
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.	Life	309
Each day provides its own gifts.	Inspirational	310
Confine yourself to the present.		311
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.	Change	312
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.		313
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'	Future	314
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.		315
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.		316
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.		317
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.	Imagination	318
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.		319
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.		320
Poverty is the mother of crime.		321
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.		322
Be content to seem what you really are.		323
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.		324
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.		325
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.		326
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.		401
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.		402

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