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Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. During his reign, the empire defeated a revitalized Parthian Empire; Aurelius' general Avidius Cassius sacked the capital Ctesiphon in 164. Aurelius fought the Marcomanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians with success during the Marcomannic Wars, but the threat of the Germanic tribes began to represent a troubling reality for the empire. A revolt in the east led by Avidius Cassius failed to gain momentum and was suppressed immediately.
Here are some famous quotes by Marcus Aurelius.
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Your life is what your thoughts make it.
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Without a purpose nothing should be done.
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A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn.
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A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
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The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
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Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.
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A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
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Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning.
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The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
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Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.
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The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
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It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.
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The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
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Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good and it will ever bubble up if thou wilt ever dig.
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There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
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This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
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Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.
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To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing - here is perfection of character.
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Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart.
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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
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There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.
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Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not 'This is a misfortune ' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.
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I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
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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.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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In the life of a man his time is but a moment...his sense a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
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If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change.
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Time is a sort of river of passing events and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place and this too will be swept away.
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It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
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Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.
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To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respect and honor it.
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If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.