Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fear, Future, Adventure

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Hate, Real

• I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Selfish, People, Ungrateful

• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

• Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Yesterday, Live For Today, Too Late

• Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Future, Stories

• You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Rejection, Mind

• Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Generations, Fleeting, Duration

• Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Judgement, Today, Circumstances

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1968). “(Markou Antoninou autokratoros Ta eis heauton): The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus”

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