馬可·奧理略（拉丁語：Marcus Aurelius，121年4月26日—180年3月17日），全名為馬可·奧理略·安敦寧·奧古斯都，出生在羅馬，在一個很有政治勢力以及富有的家庭中長大。是羅馬帝國五賢帝時代最後一個皇帝，擁有凱撒稱號（Imperator Caesar）。於161年至180年在位，有「哲學家皇帝」的美譽。馬可·奧理略是羅馬帝國最偉大的皇帝之一，同時也是著名的斯多葛派哲學家，在他統治時期被認為是羅馬黃金時代的標誌。 熟知古羅馬歷史的朋友就知道，羅馬帝國出過很多亂倫、性情殘暴的皇帝，包括斯多葛哲人代表，塞內卡也曾經被當時他服侍的一位羅馬皇帝以莫須有的政治罪賜死，還是活活的讓塞內卡失血過多而死，不是直接了結他的生命。對比來看，馬可奧理略不但是一個很有智慧的君主，同時也是一個很有成就的思想家，他的哲學思想主要體現在他的著作《沉思錄》（Meditations）中，這本書是他在生命中晚期寫的一本私人日記，充滿了對自我超越和道德生活的思考。
以下是馬可·奧理略的一些名言：
1. 人生的幸福，取決於思想的品質。
英文: The happiness of you life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
2. 你可以控制你的思想，但不能控制外在事件。明白這一點，你就會找到力量。
英文: You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
3. 最好的報復，不是讓自己變得和傷害你的人一樣，而是超越他，成為一個跟他完全不同的人。
英文: The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
4. 專注於生命的美好，仰望星空，想像自己和它們一起奔跑。
英文: Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
5. 人不該害怕死亡，而應該害怕從未真正活著。
英文: It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
6. 當你早上起來，想一想活著，思考，享受，愛是何等的幸運。
英文: When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
7. 別再浪費時間爭論怎樣才是好人。自己先成為一個。
英文: Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
8. 找不到比自己的靈魂更安靜、更無憂無慮的避風港了。
英文: Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
9. 在批評別人之前，先問問自己，是否有相似的缺點。
英文: 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?
10. 我們聽到的一切都是意見，不是事實。我們看到的一切都是觀點，不是事實。
英文: Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
11. 大多我們說的和做的事情，都不是必要的。因此在每個時刻，都要問問自己：這樣做有必要嗎？
英文: Because most of what we say and do is not essential. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’
12. 幸福的生活不需要太多，它都取決於你的內心，取決於你的思考方式。
英文: Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
13. 不要總是想著擁有你所沒有的東西，而是要好好珍惜你已經擁有的幸福。想想如果這些幸福不是你的，你會如何的渴望得到它們。
英文: Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
14. 如果你因為任何外在的事情而感到苦惱，這種痛苦不是因為事情本身，而是來自於你對事情的主觀期待，而關於這點，你有權隨時撤銷這樣的想法。
英文: 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.
15. 不要表現得好像你會活一萬年。死亡隨時可能降臨。在你還活著的時候，在你能力所及的時候，要做一個善良的人。
英文: Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
16. 第一個原則是保持心靈平靜。第二個是直視事物，了解它們的原來的本質。
英文: the first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. the second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
17. 要像懸崖一樣，承受著海浪的衝擊，依然屹立不倒，馴服了周圍水域的狂暴。
英文: be like the cliff against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
18. 生命是寶貴的，我們應該珍惜它。每一天都是一個新的開始。
英文: begin it wants to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
19. 我們都比起他人更愛自己，但卻更在乎別人的意見勝過我們自己的。
英文: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
20. 當你對人生感到痛苦時，請記住以下的規則：這「不是不幸」，而「是能夠體面的忍受它，就能把不幸轉化為好運」。
英文: here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘this is misfortune’, but ‘to bear this worthily is good fortune’.
21. 你思考的事物決定了你心靈的品質。你的靈魂會因為你的思想而改變色彩。
英文: the things you think about determine the quality of your mind. your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
22. 如果不是正確的事，就不要去做；如果不是真話，就不要說出口。
英文: if it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.
23. 死亡對我們所有人微笑，我們能做的就是用微笑回應。
英文: death smiles at us all all, we can do is smile back.
24. 我們越是關注那些我們無法控制的事物，就會失去更多對自己生活的控制力。
英文: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
25. 一個人的價值取決於他所重視的價值觀。
英文: a person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
26. 放下對傷害的感受，那麼傷害本身也會消失。
英文: your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
27. 我們現在所做的一切，都將在歷史中留下永恆的印記。
英文: what we do now echoes in eternity.
28. 對於那些每天都在努力完善自己生活的人來說，時間永遠不會不夠用。
英文: the one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.
29. 是時候該意識到，你內心擁有的力量，比那些影響你、讓你像傀儡般擺動的事物更加的強大。
英文: it’s time you realize that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
30. 做每一件事都當它是人生的最後一件事來做。
英文: do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
31. 不要因為某件事對你來說很難，就認為其他人也做不到。
英文: because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
32. 自由不是來自於滿足欲望，而是來自於消除欲望。
英文: freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire.
33. 人類的存在是為了彼此，要麼教導他們，要麼學會容忍他們。
英文: humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them or learn to bear them.
34. 只有在它破壞你的品格時才會毀掉你的生活。否則，它無法傷害你 – 無論是內在還是外在。
英文: it can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. otherwise, it cannot harm you – inside or out.
35. 閱讀和寫作是需要學習的，生活更是如此。
英文: mastery of reading and writing requires a master. still more so life.
36. 對他人寬容，對自己嚴格。
英文: be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
37. 你的日子有限。應該敞開心扉，迎接陽光。如果不這樣做，太陽很快就落下，而你也將隨之而去。
英文: your days are numbered. use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. if you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
38. 任何事情的發生都是必然的，只要你仔細的觀察，就可以理解。
英文: whatever happens at all happens as it should, you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
39. 我們的生活取決於我們的思想。
英文: our life is what our thoughts make it.
40. 憤怒的後果比引起它的原因更為嚴重。
英文: how much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
41. 我們只活在當下 – 其他的一切都是過去或未知的。
英文: we live only now – everything else is either past or is unknown.
42. 真正強大的人是懂得掌控自己的人。
英文: he is the most powerful who has power over himself.
43. 把阻力化為動力，把絆腳石看成通往成功的途徑。
英文: the impediment to action advances action. what stands in the way becomes the way.
44. 得到時不沾沾自喜，失去時不無謂掙扎。
英文: receive without conceit, release without struggle.
45. 沒有人能逃避自己的命運，我們應該關注的是如何在有限的時間裡活出最好的自己。
英文: no man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.
46. 活在當下。
英文: confine yourself to the present.
47. 對於無關緊要的事情，要學會保持漠不關心。
英文: learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
48. 不要為了未來而煩惱。你會遇到它，如果必要的話，就用對抗今天的武器來對抗它。
英文: 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.
49. 如果有人對我說，我的哪些想法或行為是不對的，我很樂意改變，因為我尋求真理。真理是有益的，它從未傷害任何人，真正受傷的是那些自我欺騙和缺乏自省能力的人。
英文: 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.
50. 不要去關心鄰居說了什麼、做了什麼、還是想了什麼，把這樣的關心轉到自己身上，關心自己是否正直，是否有德性，這樣他就能節省出許多的時間！
英文: How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
51. 開始吧，開始就完成了一半的工作，這樣就剩下一半了。然後再開始做這件事，這樣事情就完成了。
英文: Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
52. 靈魂是一塊布，而思想就是它的染料。
英文: The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
53. 一個人的價值，取決於他的抱負與追求。
英文: A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
54. 我們應該像馬奔跑、蜜蜂釀蜜、葡萄藤結果子一樣，毫無保留的行善，不必計較結過多少的果實。
英文: We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
55. 向內看，內心是善的泉源，如果你願意挖掘，善將不斷地湧出。
英文: Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
56. 我經常在想，每個人愛自己都勝過愛其他人，但為什麼他們對別人的意見，比對自己的意見，更加的重視？
英文: I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
57. 不要花太多精力在那些微不足道的小事情上，這對你沒有好處。
英文: You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
58. 宇宙是不斷變化的，不要執著於過去或未來，我們的生命取決於我們的思想。
英文: The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
59. 先跟自己和解，能跟自己和諧相處的人，也能跟宇宙和諧相處。
英文: He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
60. 你的時間有限。要用它來提升自己，啟發你的成長，一旦時間過了，就再也無法回來。
英文: Understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.
61. 要多向內看。只要你願意尋找，就會發現有一股力量，源源不崛的，從我們的內心中湧現。
英文: Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
62. 發生在每個人身上的事情，沒有一件是他天性無法承受的。
英文: Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
63. 每天的開始都帶來了新的禮物。
英文: Each day provides its own gifts.
64. 失去只不過是一種改變，改變也是大自然運行的一部分。
英文: Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
65. 不該讓外在環境激怒你，它們根本沒那麼在乎。
英文: You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.
66. 記住，要過上幸福的日子，需要的並不多，取決於你自己的思考方式。
英文: Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
