Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

The Meditations

Book Two

• Through not observing what is in the mind of another a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.

Book Four• Do not be whirled about, but in every movement have respect to justice, and on the occasion of every impression maintain the faculty of comprehension or understanding.

Book Four

• Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Book Four

• Examine men's ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.

Book Four

• Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Book Five

• How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

Book Five

• To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind.

Book Five

• If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Book Six

• Look within. Let neither the peculiar quality of anything nor its value escape you.

Book Six

• The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrong doer.

Book Six• If a thing is difficult to be

accomplished by thyself, do not think that it is impossible for man: but if anything is possible for man and conformable to his nature, think that this can be attained by thyself too.

Book Six• If any man is able to convince me

and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

Book Six

• It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Book Seven• Whatever any one does or says, I

must be good, just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying this, Whatever any one does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.

Book Seven• About fame: Look at the minds of those

who seek fame, observe what they are, and what kind of things they avoid, and what kind of things they pursue. And consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.

Book Eight

• Attend to the matter which is before thee, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word.

Book Eight• Remember that as it is a shame to

be surprised if the fig-tree produces figs, so it is to be surprised if the world produces such and such things of which it is productive; and for the physician and the helmsman it is a shame to be surprised, if a man has a fever, or if the wind is unfavorable.

Book Eight

• Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

Book Eight

• If you can see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

Book Eight

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

Book Eight

• Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Book Nine• He who does wrong does

wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

Book Nine• All things are the same, familiar in

experience, and ephemeral in time, and worthless in the matter. Everything now is just as it was in the time of those whom we have buried.

Book Nine

• It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is.

Book Twelve• Does the light of the lamp shine

without losing its splendor until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Aytekin Aliyeva

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