28 Deep Marcus Aurelius Quotes
1. "Warning: the following quotes are profound. (i re-read some of them a few times!)" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
2. "Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
3. "Do little, if you want contentment of mind." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
4. "Misfortune nobly born is good fortune." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
5. "To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
6. "A rock is thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
7. "To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
8. "You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
9. "What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
10. "The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
11. "The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
12. "Glory paid to our ashes comes too late." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
13. "The universe is transformation: life is opinion." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
14. "Passions stem from frustrated desire." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
15. "Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
16. "To the rational animal the same act is at once according to nature and according to reason." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
17. "Poverty’s no evil to anyone unless he kicks against it." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
18. "If something does not make a person worse in himself, neither does it make his life worse, nor does it harm him without or within." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
19. "Since the greatest part of what we say and do is unnecessary, dispensing with such activities affords a man more leisure and less uneasiness." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
20. "To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more will you see?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
21. "Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
22. "Whatever man you meet with, immediately say to yourself: “what opinions has this man about good and bad?”" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
23. "Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
24. "The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
25. "A vine cannot behave olively, nor an olive tree vinely – it is impossible, inconceivable. No more can a human being wholly efface his native disposition." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
26. "Don’t believe your situation is genuinely bad – no one can make you do that. Is there smoke in the house? If it’s not suffocating, i will stay indoors; if it proves too much, i’ll leave. Always remember – the door is open." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
27. "Someone bathes in haste; don’t say he bathes badly, but in haste. Someone drinks a lot of wine; don’t say he drinks badly, but a lot. Until you know their reasons, how do you know that their actions are vicious?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
28. "Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in your power. Take away then, when you choose, your opinion, and like a mariner who has rounded the headland, you will find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
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