Meditations Quotes

“No mostrar nunca la apariencia de cólera ni de ninguna otra pasión”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

“Acostumbrarme a la idea de que es necesario corregir el carácter y vigilar las inclinaciones”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

“(...) virtudes estoicas que debían regir su vida: sinceridad, sencillez y valor.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

“The mind adapts and turns round any obstacle to action to serve its objective: a hindrance to a given work is turned to its furtherance, an obstacle in a given path becomes an advance”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

“Stand up straight, not straightened
The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

“A man who leads a life of tranquillity and reflection, who is not disturbed at home and meddles not with the affairs of the world, may keep his mind at ease and his thoughts in one even course. But such a man has not been tried. All his Ethical philosophy and his passive virtue might turn out to be idle words, if he were once exposed to the rude realities of human existence. Fine thoughts and moral dissertations from men who have not worked and suffered may be read, but they will be forgotten. No religion, no Ethical philosophy is worth anything, if the teacher has not lived the “life of an apostle,” and been ready to die “the death of a martyr.” “Not in passivity (the passive effects) but in activity lie the evil and the good of the rational social animal, just as his virtue and his vice lie not in passivity, but in activity” (ix. 16)”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius