Top 500 Marcus Aurelius Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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2. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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3. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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4. “What we do now echoes in eternity.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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5. “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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6. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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7. “Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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9. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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12. “If it is not right do not do it. If it is not true do not say it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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13. “A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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14. “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.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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15. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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16. “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.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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17. “Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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19. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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20. “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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21. “Confine yourself to the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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22. “Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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23. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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24. “Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’”

— Marcus Aurelius

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25. “It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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26. “It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.”

— Marcus Aurelius

27. “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.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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28. “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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29. “Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance – now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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30. “Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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31. “Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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32. “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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33. “Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.”

— Marcus Aurelius

34. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

— Marcus Aurelius

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35. “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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36. “Each day provides its own gifts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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37. “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.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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38. “What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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39. “Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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40. “Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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41. “The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”

— Marcus Aurelius

42. “Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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43. “Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.”

— Marcus Aurelius

44. “I’m going to be meeting with people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won’t be surprised or disturbed, for I can’t imagine a world without such people.”

— Marcus Aurelius

45. “Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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46. “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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47. “It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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48. “Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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49. “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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50. “To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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