Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues."
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"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues."
Marcus Aurelius
"Without a purpose nothing should be done."
Marcus Aurelius
"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
Marcus Aurelius
"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not."
Marcus Aurelius
"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
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"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."
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"If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
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"Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away."
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"There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight."
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"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."
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"A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow."
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"Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?"
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"There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe."
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"It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live."
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"If thou workest at that which is before thee ... 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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"Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure."
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"Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
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"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."
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"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
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"Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life."
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