Marcus Aurelius (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 Up to 169 Marcus Aurelius reigned with his adoptive bro, Lucius Verus. After Verus' death was Aurelius sole leader of the Roman Empire.
Aurelius is recognized to have been interested in viewpoint. He also seems to have been really religious. Currently at the age of 8 he had a title as a sort of priest, and also he wanted the supposed Eleusinian secrets. Frequently he is portrayed in front of a church. He was also a knowledgeable warrior.
Our collection contains 69 quotes who is written / told by Marcus, under the main topics: Happiness - Anger.
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly"
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious"
"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"
"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live"
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking"
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul"
"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"
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them"
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"
"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution"
"Anger cannot be dishonest"
"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live"
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge"
"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle"
"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.""
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be"
"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished"
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts"
"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also"
"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish"
"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it"
"Be content to seem what you really are"
"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely"
"Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle"
"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers"
"Our life is what our thoughts make it"
"Do every act of your life as if it were your last"
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig"
"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else"
"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature"
"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh"
"Confine yourself to the present"
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe"
"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle"
"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last"
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth"
"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so"
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts"
"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer"
"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"
"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires"
"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions"
"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last"
"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"
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise"
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing"
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears"
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live"
