Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
- Marcus Aurelius
While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
- Marcus Aurelius
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
- Marcus Aurelius
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune, " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
- Marcus Aurelius
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
- Marcus Aurelius
The intelligence of the universe is social.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
- Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
- Marcus Aurelius
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
- Marcus Aurelius