Marcus Aurelius Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

34 Famous Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Virtue Quotes
“For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay”
Compliments Quotes
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”
Difficulty Quotes
“Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life”
Dignity Quotes
“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.”
Events Quotes
“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst”
Flaws Quotes
“The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is”
Flaws Quotes
“Each day provides its own gifts”
Gifts Quotes
“Glory paid to our ashes comes too late”
Glory Quotes
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
Honesty Quotes
“So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father”
Modesty Quotes
“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.”
Praise Quotes
“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.”
Privilege Quotes
“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.”
Quality Quotes
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Self-respect Quotes
“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Sex Quotes
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Anger Quotes
“Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.”
Goodness Quotes
“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”
Inaction Quotes
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
Observation Quotes
“How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.”
Anger Quotes
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.”
Now Quotes
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
Time Quotes
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury”
Miscellaneous Quotes