Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VII, 59
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
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Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Meditations. iv. 17.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Μηκέθ᾽ ὅλως περὶ τοῦ οἷόν τινα εἶναι τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι τοιοῦτον.
X, 16
Variant: Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
“No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations (Hovory k sobě)
“What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VI, 54
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Hays translation
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.
II, 1
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
XI, 15
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI
Source: The Apology, Phaedo & Crito of Plato/Golden Sayings of Epictetus/Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
No printed sources exist for this prior to 2009, and this seems to have been an attribution which arose on the internet, as indicated by web searches and rationales provided at "Marcus Aurelius and source checking" at Three Shouts on a Hilltop (14 June 2011) http://threeshoutsonahilltop.blogspot.com/2011/06/marcus-aurelius-and-source-checking.html <br class="br">This quote may be a paraphrase of Meditations, Book II: <br class="br">Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.<br>But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil;<br>but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence?<br>But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil <br class="br">Misattributed
“Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VIII, 22
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
τί λοιπὸν ἢ ἀπολαύειν τοῦ ζῆν συνάπτοντα ἄλλο ἐπ ἄλλῳ ἀγαθόν, ὥστε μηδὲ τὸ βραχύτατον διάστημα ἀπολείπειν;
XII, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII
“From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VII, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
IV, 14 (trans. Meric Casaubon)
τὸ χρεὼν ἐπήρτηται· ἕως ζῇς, ἕως ἔξεστιν, ἀγαθὸς γενοῦ.
IV, 17 (trans.George Long)
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
Variant: Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VII, 58
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII