Collected Meditations
Showing 79 quotesAptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.— Marcus Aurelius
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.— Marcus Aurelius
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.— Marcus Aurelius
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.— Marcus Aurelius
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Time
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.— Marcus Aurelius
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.— Marcus Aurelius
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Design
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.— Marcus Aurelius
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.— Marcus Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.— Marcus Aurelius
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.— Marcus Aurelius
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Men
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.— Marcus Aurelius
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Beauty