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Marcus Aurelius quotes

121–180. Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher. 9 quotes.

Meditations (c. 175; tr. George Long, 1862)

Checked against Project Gutenberg eBook #15877.

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

Book 2, §1Source text

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Book 4, §3Source text

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like [the wrong-doer].

Book 6, §6Source text

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Book 7, §59Source text

The art of life is more like the wrestler’s art than the dancer’s

Book 7, §61Source text

Very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

Book 7, §67Source text

Loss is nothing else than change.

Book 9, §35Source text

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.

Book 10, §16Source text

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.

Book 12, §17Source text
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