33 Quotations by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- 1. A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
- 2. Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...
- 3. By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
- 4. Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for w ...
- 5. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
- 6. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- 7. How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only a ...
- 8. How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
- 9. How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
- 10. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
- 11. In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to ...
- 12. It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.
- 13. Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
- 14. Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last
- 15. Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
- 16. Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway ...
- 17. Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
- 18. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-re ...
- 19. Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...
- 20. Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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