Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calm, and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD. He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161.
WikipediaMarcus Aurelius Quotes (28)
"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength."
View quote details →"Do not try to be on the side of the majority, but live according to your inner laws."
View quote details →"By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful - more free of interruptions - than your own soul."
View quote details →"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
View quote details →"Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back."
View quote details →"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
View quote details →"Think of yourself as dead. you have lived your life. Now, take what's left, and live it properly."
View quote details →"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together."
View quote details →"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."
View quote details →"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets."
View quote details →"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
View quote details →"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."
View quote details →"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
View quote details →"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone else to accomplish."
View quote details →"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."
View quote details →"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."
View quote details →"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."
View quote details →"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
View quote details →"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
View quote details →"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
View quote details →"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
View quote details →"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
View quote details →"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."
View quote details →"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
View quote details →"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
View quote details →"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
View quote details →"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
View quote details →"A happy life depends on very little."
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