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Marcus Aurelius, born in 121 AD and died in 180 AD, was an emperor of the Roman Empire. He is one of the Five Good Emperors and is known for his philosophical thoughts and the stability of his reign. He was not only an outstanding politician but also a famous Stoic philosopher, whose work 'Meditations' has had a profound impact on later generations.

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Famous Marcus Aurelius Quotes

“Remember that all is opinion.”

Remember Opinion Criticism

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.”

Doe States Remember Law Order Citizens Harm Misfortunes

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.”

Matter Play Remember Roles Fate Share Tiny Fleeting Allotments

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“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.”

Men Should Remember Dies Sin Ignorance Forgiveness Relation Offended

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.”

Mind May Stills Soul Body Pain Remember Thee Commerce Tranquility Stopping

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.”

Men Should Action Remember Desire Given Understanding Glory Praise

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.”

Enough Remember Law Lying Virtue Mankind Poet Simplicity Vices Indifference Thyself

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“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.'”

Remember Bears Adversity Fortune Bitter Bitterness Misfortunes Good Fortune

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.”

Ifs Men May Said Use Remember Opinion Manifest Cynic

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.”

Philosophy Earth Remember Heaven Ready Succeed Doctors Instruments Chains Heavenly Links Smallest Emergencies Heaven And Earth Handy Scalpels

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.”

Humans Remember Human Beings Morning Trouble Bed Characteristics Defining

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.”

Whole Happens Remember Advantage

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”

Ifs Remember Gratitude Accounts Grateful Thank You Thankfulness Thankful Gratitude Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Inspirational Gratitude Gratitude For Help Words Of Gratitude Grateful Thanks Thankful For What You Have

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”

“Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.”

Men Life Past Remember Life Is Gone Instant Fleeting Fleeting Life Fleeting Time

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?”

Ifs Life Years Moments Past Remember Three Loses Gone Forever Taken Thousand Creatures Thirty Present Moment Thousand Years Living Creatures

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.”

Men Life Years Moments Action Remember Three Loses Thousand Thirty Sole Thousand Years

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”

Life Character Remember Dignity Performances Proportion

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.”

Thinking Remember Spiritual Opinion Please All Things

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.”

Ifs Men Life Real Remember Lying Speak Force Power Self Esteem Strings Persuasion Speaks Out Real Men Power Of Persuasion

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.”

Remember Death Remembered Ephemeral

Book:Meditations: with selected correspondence

Source: Meditations: with selected correspondence

“Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.”

World Kind Running Remember Time Opportunity Lost Given Interest Periods Losing Improvement Recovery Slips Governors Self Interest

Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.”

Men Littles Long Self Truth Earth Past Remember Life Is Gone Fame Letting Go Following Corners Mortals Instant Dependent Little Things Fleeting Succession Little Man Perishing

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“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.”

Humans Two Hands Remember Cases Divine Ready Instruments Divinity Treatment Knives Smallest Surgeons

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.”

Inspirational Mind Remember Leadership Changing Your Mind

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.”

Men Years Remember Three Thousand Thousand Years Destined

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“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.”

Ifs Mind Littles Pain Past Remember Thee Past Pain

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

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

Men Moments Remember Loses Sole

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”

Men Years Firsts Looks Two Past Remember Form Time Dies Loses Hundred Rounds Look Up Cycles Infinity Everlasting

Author:Marcus Aurelius