Marcus Aurelius Quotes - Page 19

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• Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

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  Campaigns, Strange, Life Is

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• Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

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  Philosophical, Form, Everlasting

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

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  Live Life, Men, Good Man

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• What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

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  Bears, Remains, Remove

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• Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

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  Fire, Events, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.37, Modern Library

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• Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

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  Death, Ephemeral, Remember

  Marcus Aurelius (2011). “Meditations: with selected correspondence”, p.31, OUP Oxford

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• A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

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  Men, Headstone, Gravestone

  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.33, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

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  Men, Soul, Live Well

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• Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

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  Love, Inspirational, Change

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

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  Taken, Asking, Firsts

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

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  Together, Gone, Already Gone

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.44, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

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  Death, Believe, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• ...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

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  Men, Past, Years

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• Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

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  Elements, Birth, Mystery

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

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  Passing Away, Existence, Non Existence

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 4,

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• If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

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  Men, Transformation, Wave

  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.102, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

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  Men, Suits, Every Man

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (4), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?

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  Littles, Found, Certainty

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• 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.

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  Life, Men, Years

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• Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

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  Acceptance, Judgement, Events

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.119, Modern Library

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• Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

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  Love, Fate, Spun

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• Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

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  Soul, Leisure, Inward

  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.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

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  Cheerful, Reason, Tranquil

  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.111, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

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  Vanity, Fame, Everlasting

  "The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

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• Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

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  Ashes, Too Late, Glory

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