Marcus Aurelius

Sharing quotes from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 📖, the Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher.

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Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.

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Your ability to control your thoughts—treat it with respect. It’s all that protects your mind from false perceptions—false to your nature, and that of all rational beings.

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You should leave another’s wrong where it lies.

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No more roundabout discussion of what makes a good man. Be one!

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All that you see will soon perish; those who witness this perishing will soon perish themselves. Die in extreme old age or die before your time — it will all be the same.

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Today I escaped from all bothering circumstances—or rather I threw them out. They were nothing external, but inside me, just my own judgments.

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Men are born for the sake of each other. So either teach or tolerate.

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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.

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Soon you will have forgotten all things: soon all things will have forgotten you.

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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts. So dye your own.

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Love the art which you have learned, and take comfort in it.

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Remove the judgment, and you have removed the thought ‘I am hurt’: remove the thought ‘I am hurt,’ and the hurt itself is removed.

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You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or think.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart.

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Take a good hard look at people's ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from & what they seek out.

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You shouldn't give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don't care at all.

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Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.

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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter.

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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.