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> [“But death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/but-death-certainly-and-life-honour-and-dishonour-pain-and-pleasure/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

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> [Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/yet-living-and-dying-honour-and-dishonour-pain-and-pleasure-riches/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

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> [“But death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure—all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/but-death-and-life-honor-and-dishonor-pain-and-pleasure-all-these/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

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- [Aristotle 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/aristotle/)

## More by Marcus Aurelius

> [A man should be upright, not kept upright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/a-man-should-be-upright-not-kept-upright/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [Everything is mere opinion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/everything-is-mere-opinion/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/if-any-man-has-done-wrong-the-harm-is-his-own-but-perhaps-he-has-not/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/pray-look-upon-the-plants-and-birds-the-ants-spiders-and-bees-and-you/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/we-should-remark-the-grace-and-fascination-that-there-is-even-in-the/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/my-true-self-is-free-i-cannot-be-contained/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-best-revenge-is-to-be-unlike-him-who-performed-the-injury/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/nothing-befalls-any-man-which-he-is-not-fitted-to-endure/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/adorn-thyself-with-simplicity-and-with-indifference-towards-the/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/let-it-be-your-constant-method-to-look-into-the-design-of-people-s/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [“Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/our-life-is-a-warfare-and-a-mere-pilgrimage/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/if-therefore-it-be-a-thing-external-that-causes-thy-grief-know-that/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/frightened-of-change-but-what-can-exist-without-it-what-s-closer-to/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/we-are-too-much-accustomed-to-attribute-to-a-single-cause-that-which/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

> [“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/at-dawn-when-you-have-trouble-getting-out-of-bed-tell-yourself-i-have/)

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