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“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

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“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VII, 61
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Life is opinion.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

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“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

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“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations

“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?… It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty… For what task, then, were you yourself created?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
V, 16
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V

“Death,—a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VI, 28
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

“It loved to happen.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.
IX, 5
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX