Stoic Quotes by
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.
Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength
Marcus Aurelius
Our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to
Marcus Aurelius
Either teach them better if it be in thy power; or if it be not, remember that for this use, to bear with them patiently, was mildness and goodness granted unto thee.
Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue...
Marcus Aurelius
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Marcus Aurelius
How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us!
Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is already within yourself, your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
You don't love yourself enough. Or you'd love your nature too, and what it demands of you.
Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
Just that you do the right thing. The rest does not matter.
Marcus Aurelius
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
Marcus Aurelius
Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being, and of that which is incident to it.
Marcus Aurelius
Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.
Marcus Aurelius
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me. Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
Marcus Aurelius
Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.
Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.
Marcus Aurelius
The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed.
Marcus Aurelius
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
Marcus Aurelius
Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell.
Marcus Aurelius
Another useful point to bear in mind: What qualities has nature given us to counter that defect? As an antidote to unkindness it gave us kindness. And other qualities to balance other flaws.
Marcus Aurelius
What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us.
Marcus Aurelius
Dig deep; the water- goodness- is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up.
Marcus Aurelius
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
Marcus Aurelius
Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.
Marcus Aurelius
How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it?
Marcus Aurelius
Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
Marcus Aurelius
Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish for?
Marcus Aurelius
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
