Meditations Quotes

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

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:fear nature living

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

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:men others

“That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:beauty need

“Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:good

“Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:good

“The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:good honesty

“There is no nature which is inferior to art, for the arts imitate the nature of things.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:nature art

“For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:nature evil

“Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:nature man

“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:evil morality

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