Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
• A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.
• Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.
• Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow…
• Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch…
• At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
• Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.
• The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
• I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
• An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched…
• The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
• Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
• Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them…
• Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
• Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to…
• Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.
• You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common…
• Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor
• To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

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