Marcus Aurelius: Book Of Quotes (100+ Selected Quotes)

MARCUS AURELIUS: BOOK OF QUOTES

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ABOUT MARCUS AURELIUS
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (/¿¿¿ri¿li¿s/ ¿-REE-lee-¿s; 26 April 121 ¿ 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors (a term coined some 13 centuries later by Niccolò Machiavelli), and the last emperor of the Pax Romana (27 BC to 180 AD), an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empire. He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161.

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QUOTES SAMPLES

¿When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.¿

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¿The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.¿

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¿You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.¿

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¿Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.¿

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

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¿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.¿

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¿The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.¿

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