Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

"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."
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"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."
Marcus Aurelius
"This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal."
Marcus Aurelius
"Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live."
Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
Marcus Aurelius
"A man's life is what his thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius
"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
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"To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character."
Marcus Aurelius
"Time is a sort of river of passing events and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place and this too will be swept away."
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"Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning."
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"Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn."
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack."
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."
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"I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others."
Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."
Marcus Aurelius
"If thou workest at that which is before thee following right reason seriously vigorously calmly without allowing anything else to distract thee but keeping thy divine part pure as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately if thou holdest to this expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this."
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"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."
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"A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man."
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"The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure."
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"To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respect and honor it."
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