Top 25 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius of 777 - Page 24

The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Fire, Tyrants

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.48, Lulu.com

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Marcus Aurelius

Forgiveness, Ignorance, Men

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

Marcus Aurelius

Thinking, Self, Focus

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.211, Modern Library

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Marcus Aurelius

Past, Weight, Limits

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Marcus Aurelius

Writing, Science, Occupation

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.18, Enhanced Media Publishing

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

Marcus Aurelius

Morrow, Be Good

Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.66, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Marcus Aurelius

Soul, Fancy, Arise

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Marcus Aurelius

Attitude, Men, Judging

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.34, Lulu.com

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness, Lying, Practice

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

Marcus Aurelius

Space, Errors, Effort

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

Marcus Aurelius

Together, World, Holy

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.192, Modern Library

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

God, Truth, Thinking

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

Marcus Aurelius

Worst Enemy, Actors, Body

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Existentialism, Dies

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

Marcus Aurelius

Air, Soul, Atheism

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Enhanced Media Publishing

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Remember, Sole

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Marcus Aurelius

Book, Philosophical, Reading

Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.

Marcus Aurelius

Pain, Past, Mind

Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.57, Enhanced Media Publishing

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Ridiculous, Impossible

Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness.

Marcus Aurelius

Looks, Moments, Reason

"The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Selections Annotated & Explained".

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Marcus Aurelius

Falling In Love, Men, Sight

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.30, Lulu.com

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Marcus Aurelius

Perception, Haste, Hours

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

Marcus Aurelius

Father, Love Life, Life Is Short

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Marcus Aurelius

Reason, Rational

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VII, 11,

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Marcus Aurelius

Hands, Knives, Two

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (13), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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