Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Goodness

Quotes about: Goodness

• In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Justice, Remembrance, Speech

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Needs, Done, Benefits

• Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Kindness, Fate

• You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Years, May, Common

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1898). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics”

• Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Judging, Goodness

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Man is born for deeds of kindness.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Kindness, Men, Deeds

• Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Color, Doe, Emeralds

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

• One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Solitude, Mind

• Let goodness go with the doing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Letting Go, Goodness

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1920). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: In English”

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