Quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter

Jangan pernah menyakiti orang lain dengan perbuatan mau pun kata-kata.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming – in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the Ruler within you – means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.

And so accept everything that happens, even if it is disagreeable, because it leads to this, to the health of the universe and to the prosperity and felicity of Zeus

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.

I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.

We must make haste, then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

And give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch, but in true grace and heartfelt gratitude to the god

When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.

Why should any of these things that happen externally, so much distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing, and cease roving and wandering to and fro. Thou must also take heed of another kind of wandering, for they are idle in their actions, who toil and labour in this life, and have no certain scope to which to direct all their motions, and desires.

Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present—thoughtfully, justly. Unrestrained moderation.

Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

Attend to the matter before you, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word. You suffer this justly: for you choose rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today.

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

All men die, but that not all men die whining

To change your experience, change your opinion. If you're upset by something outside you, it's not the thing itself that upsets you, but your opinion of it. And it's in your power to wipe away that opinion immediately.