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Meditations Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν

By Marcus Aurelius

Quotes from Meditations Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν

“All things are interwoven, a sacred bond uniting them into the oneness of truth.”

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Themes: Oneness Truth

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“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself, and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.”

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Themes: Beauty

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“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

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Themes: Death and Dying

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“Do everything as a disciple of Antoninus. Remember his constancy in every reasonable act, his evenness in all things, his piety, and the serenity of his countenance, and his disregard of empty fame... with how little he was satisfied, how laborious and patient, how religious without superstition.”

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Themes: Fame

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“Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it. Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”

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“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

Chapters: 68. Joining Heaven & Earth

Themes: Anger Karma

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“In this immensity of past and future time, what is the difference between living three days or three generations?”

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Themes: Longevity Time

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“Nowhere can we find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in our own soul.”

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Themes: Meditation

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“One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, The Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.”

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Themes: Law and Order

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“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

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Themes: Reason

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“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.”

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“See that you are part of a universe in flux and have a very limited time to clear away the clouds in your mind.”

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Themes: Time

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“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

Chapters: 41. Distilled Life
18. The Sick Society

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“Time is like a river of events - each arising, carried away, and quickly replaced by something also quickly replaced.”

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Themes: Carpe diem Time

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“When you start to criticize someone’s fault, ask yourself which of your own faults most closely resembles it.

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Quotes about Meditations Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν (1 quotes)

“The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius represents the culmination of Greek thought with regard to god, fate, and good and evil. It has proven to be an enduring legacy, a reflection of an ethical life as applicable today as it was almost 2,000 years ago.”

J. Rufus Fears 1945 – 2012 CE
from Books That Made History

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