18 Funny And Surprising Marcus Aurelius Quotes
1. "Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
2. "Have i been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
3. "How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
4. "For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn’t, yet these same poems make me gay." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
5. "Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
6. "If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
7. "Under no circumstances ever say ‘i have lost something,’ only ‘i returned it.’" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
8. "He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
9. "Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
10. "Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a speck of semen tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
11. "‘but i get to wear a crown of gold.’ if you have your heart set on wearing crowns, why not make one out of roses – you will look even more elegant in that." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
12. "Who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren’t they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition, then – to win the approval of lunatics?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
13. "If you learn that someone is speaking ill of you, don’t try to defend yourself against the rumours; respond instead with, ‘yes, and he doesn’t know the half of it, because he could have said more’." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
14. "Let us overlook many things in those who are like antagonists in the gymnasium. For it is in our power, as i said, to get out of the way and to have no suspicion or hatred." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
15. "“a cucumber is bitter.” Throw it away. “there are briars in the road.” Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, “and why were such things made in the world?”" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
16. "Consider what men are when they are eating, sleeping, coupling, evacuating, and so forth. Then what kind of men they are when they are imperious and arrogant, or angry and scolding from their elevated place." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
17. "It is just charming how people boast about qualities beyond their control. For instance, ‘i am better than you because i have many estates, while you are practically starving’; or, ‘i’m a consul,’ ‘i’m a governor,’ or ‘i have fine curly hair.’" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
18. "How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
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