Marcus Aurelius Quotes - Page 4

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• I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

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  Truth, Men, Atheism

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• It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

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  Powerful, Puppets, Miraculous

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.165, Modern Library

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• Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

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  Dope, Feelings, Belief

  Quoted in "The Future of Counselling and Psychotherapy" by Stephen Palmer and Ved P. Varma, Chapter 6, p. 84, 1997.

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• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

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  Character, Soul, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.84, Penguin UK

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• When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money, or pleasure, or a bit of fame. By being mindful of this you'll quickly forget your anger, especially if you realize that the person was under stress, and could do little else. And, if you can, find a way to alleviate that stress.

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  Mistake, Stress, Thinking

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• Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

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  Men, Mind, Care

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Failure

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• If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

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  Pain, Giving, Opinion

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• 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.

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  Men, Understanding, Desire

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• Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Select

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• Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

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  Past, Over You

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• To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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  Wise, Philosophical, Math

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• The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Poverty is the mother of crime.

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  Mother, Philosophical, Poverty

  "Well Said, Well Spoken: 736 Quotable Quotes for Educators". Book edited by Robert D. Ramsey, p. 30, 2001.

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• Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

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  Strength, Spring, Emotional

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• It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

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  Hurt, Hurt Me, Happenings

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

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  Evil, Doe, Injustice

  "Meditations".

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• Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

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  Horse, Tasks, Vines

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• Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

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  Science, Mind, Tranquility

  Meditations IV.3

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• It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

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  Silly, People, Trying

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.97, Modern Library

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• All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.

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  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

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  Adversity, Needs, Cucumbers

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.111, Modern Library

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• I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

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  Motivation, Men, Worry

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