Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.


Marcus Aurelius

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MARCUS AURELIUS
Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
MARCUS AURELIUS
You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
MARCUS AURELIUS
When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
MARCUS AURELIUS
It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
MARCUS AURELIUS
Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
MARCUS AURELIUS
You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
MARCUS AURELIUS
Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
MARCUS AURELIUS
How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
MARCUS AURELIUS
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
MARCUS AURELIUS
Nothing in nature is evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS
It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
MARCUS AURELIUS
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS
The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS
You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS
To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS
The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS
Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
MARCUS AURELIUS