Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Meditations, Book X
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Marcus Aurelius quotes
121-180 ยท Philosophers and ancient wisdom
Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher who wrote the Meditations.
10 quotes, 10 traced to where Aurelius said or wrote them.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Meditations, Book VI
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Meditations, Book VII
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Meditations, Book V
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
Meditations, Book XII
Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Meditations, Book VII, tr. George Long
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Meditations, Book V, tr. Gregory Hays
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.
Meditations, Book IV
Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
Meditations, Book IV, tr. George Long
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Meditations, Book IV, tr. M. H. Morgan