Marcus Aurelius

Bekannte Zitate von Marcus Aurelius

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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 opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.