27 Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Love, Kindness, Respect, Friends, Doing Good
1. "You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
2. "People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
3. "Refer your action to no other end than the common good." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
4. "Is helping others less valuable to you? Not worth your effort?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
5. "Only attend to yourself, and resolve to be a good man in every act that you do." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
6. "People exist for one another. You can instruct or endure them." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
7. "As an antidote to battle unkindness we were given kindness." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
8. "Consider if you have behaved to all in such a way that this way be said of you: never has he wronged a man in deed or word." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
9. "What is divine deserves our affection because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
10. "The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to god." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
11. "Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker’s mind." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
12. "One thing here is worth a great deal: to pass your life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition even to liars and unjust men." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
13. "If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error. But if you are not able, blame yourself, or not even yourself." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
14. "From my brother severus to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice. (what marcus learned from severus)" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
15. "To show intuitive sympathy for friends, tolerance to amateurs and sloppy thinkers. (what marcus learned from sextus)" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
16. "From sextus to tolerate ignorant persons, and those who form opinions without consideration. (what marcus learned from sextus)" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
17. "To have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. (what marcus learned from apollonius)" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
18. "Do not be whirled about, but in every movement have respect to justice, and on the occasion of every impression maintain the faculty of comprehension or understanding." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
19. "His respect for people who practiced philosophy – at least, those who were sincere about it. But without denigrating the others – or listening to them. (what marcus learned from his adopted father)" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
20. "We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
21. "Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
22. "What is your art? To be good. And how is this accomplished well except by general principles, some about the nature of the universe, and others about the proper constitution of man?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
23. "[treat] unenlightened souls with sympathy and indulgence, remembering that they are ignorant or mistaken about what’s most important. Never be harsh, remember plato’s dictum: ‘every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.’" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
24. "Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But i will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
25. "In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
26. "Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
27. "When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic – what defines a human being — is to work with others. Even animals know how to sleep. And it’s the characteristic activity that’s the more natural one – more innate and more satisfying." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
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