Marcus Aurelius Christian Quotes

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine. ~ John Stuart Mill

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Kingship: to earn a bad reputation by good deeds. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The gods sustain and guide all their works. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: ~ Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is not to be like that. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Studying philosophy instills modesty and straightforwardness in your character. ~ Marcus Aurelius

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Objective judgment ... Unselfish action ... Willing acceptance ... of all external events. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Everything is but what we think it. ~ Marcus Aurelius

That I have such a wife, so obedient, ~ Marcus Aurelius

Fame in a world like this is worthless. ~ Marcus Aurelius

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Live as though today is your last day. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life. ~ Marcus Aurelius

III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died. ~ Marcus Aurelius

And I observed that he had overcome all passion for boys; ~ Marcus Aurelius

No thefts of free will reported."[ - Epictetus.] ~ Marcus Aurelius

Wait for it patiently - annihilation or metamorphosis. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Goodness - what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.- ~ Marcus Aurelius

The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.' There ~ Marcus Aurelius

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised. ~ Marcus Aurelius

with how little he was satisfied, such as lodging, bed, dress, food, servants; ~ Marcus Aurelius

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads ~ Marcus Aurelius

Be content to seem what you really are. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds. ~ Marcus Aurelius

All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Self reliance, always. And cheerfulness. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you may at any moment quit life. ~ Marcus Aurelius

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one! ~ Marcus Aurelius

The thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view. ~ Marcus Aurelius

For in those things that properly belong
unto the mind, she cannot be hindered by any man ~ Marcus Aurelius

Anger cannot be dishonest. ~ Marcus Aurelius

It loved to happen. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Fire feeds on obstacles ~ Marcus Aurelius

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to. ~ Marcus Aurelius

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

Because other people are fools, must you be so too? ~ Marcus Aurelius

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius

As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour. ~ Marcus Aurelius

There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility ~ Marcus Aurelius

Praise adds nothing to beauty
makes it neither better nor worse. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age. ~ Marcus Aurelius

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony. ~ Marcus Aurelius

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. ~ Marcus Aurelius

No difference between here and there: the city that you live in is the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Does a man offend your pride? Remember he will be dead soon, as will you. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The universe is change; life is your perception of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius

To be free of passion and yet full of love. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is not to do as they do. ~ Marcus Aurelius

You are a spirit, bearing the weight of a dead body, as Epictetus used to say. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. ~ Marcus Aurelius

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? ~ Marcus Aurelius

Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry. ~ Marcus Aurelius

For all things fade and turn to fable, and quickly too, utter oblivion covers them like sand. ~ Marcus Aurelius

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans. ~ Marcus Aurelius

A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse." - Epictetus. ~ Marcus Aurelius

To enter others' minds and let them enter yours. ~ Marcus Aurelius

strength and honor ~ Marcus Aurelius

Kindness is invincible. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. ~ Marcus Aurelius

And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. ~ Marcus Aurelius

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. ~ Marcus Aurelius

And to behave in a conciliatory way when people who have angered or annoyed us want to make up. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Never wilt your soul, never be just good, simple or unpolished. Manifest more then the body that surrounds yourself. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. ~ Marcus Aurelius

But that which is useful is the better. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change? ~ Marcus Aurelius

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully it. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art. ~ Marcus Aurelius

We are all mere nuggets of incense on the one altar. Some burn down now , some later - there is no difference . ~ Marcus Aurelius

Soon, you will have forgotten everything.
Soon, everybody will have forgotten you. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm. ~ Marcus Aurelius

People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. ~ Marcus Aurelius

BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. ~ Marcus Aurelius

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life ~ Marcus Aurelius

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. ~ Marcus Aurelius

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Human society is a single organism, like an individual human body or a tree. But ~ Marcus Aurelius