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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Birthday: | April 26, 0121 |
Death: | March 17, 0180 |
Manner of Death: | Natural Causes |
Nationality: | Ancient Rome |
Occupations: | Philosopher, Politician |
Spouse: | Faustina The Younger |
Total quotes: 45
Marcus Aurelius
Fictional CharacterBirthday: April 26, 0121
Death: March 17, 0180
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Nationality: Ancient Rome
Occupations: Philosopher, Politician
Spouse: Faustina The Younger
Total quotes: 45
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Tagged:
strength, Self-Control
“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands, unmoved and the raging of the sea still around it.”
Tagged:
Persevere
“'Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren't aiming to do the impossible.'
'Aiming to do what, then?'
'To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.'”
'Aiming to do what, then?'
'To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.'”
Tagged:
Meditations
“To have that. Not a cistern but a perpetual spring. How? By working to win your freedom. Hour by hour. Through patience, honesty, humility.”
Tagged:
Persistance
“External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight?”
If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight?”
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Impressions
“No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No impression in your thoughts. No retreating into your own soul or try to escape it. No overactivity.”
Tagged:
Persistance
“...greet that which does not depend on us serenely and without regrets, and use this obstacle to practice another virtue.”
Tagged:
emotions
“The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out.
There are branches in the path? Then go around them.
That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know 'why something exists.'”
There are branches in the path? Then go around them.
That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know 'why something exists.'”
Tagged:
Impressions
“You take things you don't control and define them as 'good' or 'bad.' And so of course when the 'bad' things happen, or the 'good' ones don't, you blame the gods and feel hatred for the people responsible–or those you decide to make responsible. Much of our bad behavior stems from trying to applying those criteria.”
Tagged:
Impressions
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
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How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Nothing but what you get from first impressions. That someone has invited you, for instance. That–but not that it's done you any harm. The fact that my son is sick–that I can see. But 'that he might die of it,' no. Stick with first impressions. Don't extrapolate. And nothing can happen to you.”
Tagged:
Impressions
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