Marcus Aurelius

(554 votes)   Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(492 votes)   The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(409 votes)   The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(336 votes)   If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(309 votes)   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
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(271 votes)   Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(268 votes)   A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(268 votes)   Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(265 votes)   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.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(251 votes)   Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(250 votes)   One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(242 votes)   Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(178 votes)   Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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(163 votes)   A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Marcus Aurelius
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(144 votes)   How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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