Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Stoicism

Quotes about: Stoicism

• Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Strength, Believe

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Gerald Henry Rendall (1907). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: in English”

• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Moving On, Death

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing

• The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Action, Obstacles

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.162, Modern Library

• Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stoicism, Thrive, Feels

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.39, Modern Library

• Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Thinking, Dust

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