Marcus Aurelius Philosophy Quotes

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

- Marcus Aurelius

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

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

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

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

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

- Richard Monckton Milnes

A leader is a dealer in hope.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

- Lao Tzu

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

- Aristotle