Marcus Aurelius Quotes On Life, Death, Meditations

Marcus Aurelius Quotes On Life, Death, Meditations

The Roman Emperor, from 161 to 180 and the Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius had been 26 April 121 – 17 March 180. The latter of the Five Good Emperors (a word invented by Niccolò Machiavelli some 13 centuries later) and Pax Romana's last emperor, the Roman Empire's period of relative tranquility and peace. Between 140, 145 and 161 he was Roman consul. The emperor's nevew, Marcus Annius Verus (III), and his wife, Domitia Lucilla, was born during Hadry. Marcus was born to the emperor's nephew. His mother and grandfather, Marcus Annius Verus (II), raised Marcus after his father's death. Following the death in 138 of the adopted son of Hadrian, Aelius Caesar, Marcus's uncle Antoninus Pius was recognised by emperor as his new heir.

Marcus Aurelius 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.

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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.

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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.

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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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.

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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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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.

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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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.

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

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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.

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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

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