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“In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VIII, 39
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

Love , Pleasure , Justice , Animals

“Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

III, 4
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III

Life , Imagination

“Remember this, then, that this little compound, thyself, must either be dissolved, or they poor breath must be extinguished, or be removed and placed elsewhere.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VIII, 25
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”

Marcus Aurelius

Attributed in The Life You Were Born to Live : Finding Your Life Purpose (1995) by Dan Millman, Pt. 2, Ch. 2 : Cooperation and Balance
Disputed

Happy , Universe

“Art thy not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? Just as if the eye demanded recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose… so also is man formed by nature to acts of benevolence.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

IX, 42
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX

Art , Nature

“How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

To shrug it all off and wipe it clean--every annoyance and distraction--and reach utter stillness. Child's play. (Hays translation)
V, 2
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V

“He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

IX, 33
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX

Age

“Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VII, 55
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

IV, 15
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

“There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

XI, 10
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI

Art , Nature

“But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VI, 41
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

God , Hostility

“The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX, 1

Truth , Nature , Universe

“There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
II, 4
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II

Time

“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

IV, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

“About fame… Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VII, 34
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

Life

“The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X, 6

Nature , Universe

“It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VIII, 42
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

Pain

“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Variant translation: Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
IV, 3.
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

Men , Art , Soul , Mountain