Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Country, Art, Men

  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.38, Enhanced Media Publishing

• It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Perfect, Mind, Desire

  "Treasures of Love & Inspiration". Book by Marjorie Barrows, p. 278, 1993.

• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

• Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Science, Perception

• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Understanding, Desire

• Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Mind, Desire

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.34, Modern Library

• When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dream, Hate, Heart

• 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”

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