26 Wise Marcus Aurelius Quotes

1. "Take care that you don’t treat inhumanity as it treats human beings." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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2. "A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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3. "A thing is neither better nor worse for having been praised." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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4. "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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5. "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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6. "Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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7. "He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only he who does a certain thing." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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8. "Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only in what you are doing." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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9. "Your three components: body, breath, mind. Two are yours in trust; to the third alone you have clear title." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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10. "No one objects to what is useful to him. To be of use to others is natural. Then don’t object to what is useful to you – being of use." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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11. "When i see that one thing [virtue] is supreme and most important, i cannot say that something else is, just to make you happy." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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12. "Either you’re going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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13. "I say that virtue is more valuable than wealth to the same degree that eyes are more valuable than fingernails." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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14. "Most of us dread the deadening of the body and will do anything to avoid it. About the deadening of the soul, however, we don’t care one iota." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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15. "Things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; so our perturbations come only from our inner opinions." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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16. "We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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17. "An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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18. "The mind in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself. Is undisturbed, except for its own disturbances. Knows no obstructions, except those from within." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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19. "Whatever anyone does or says, i must be good, just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying this, whatever anyone does or says, i must be emerald and keep my color." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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20. "A boxer derives the greatest advantage from his sparring partner – and my accuser is my sparring partner. He trains me in patience, civility and even temper." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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21. "Don’t let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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22. "As you are careful when you walk not to step on a nail or turn your ankle, so you should take care not to do any injury to your character at the same time." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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23. "If you lost the capacity to read, or play music, you would think it was a disaster, but you think nothing of losing the capacity to be honest, decent and civilized." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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24. "Death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure — all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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25. "As it is with a play, so it is with life – what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is. It is not important at what point you stop. Stop wherever you will – only make sure that you round it off with a good ending." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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26. "If someone is incapable of distinguishing good things from bad and neutral things from either – well, how could such a person be capable of love? The power to love, then, belongs only to the wise man." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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