Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and… All
• 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… Days
• I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself. Business
• Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest. Break
• Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. Bear
• In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness… Absolutely
• Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore? Able
• If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions… Aimless
• When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money,… Alleviate
• Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life… Accordingly
• Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard… Believe
• Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can… Afraid
• "Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel… Act
• Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest… All
• But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art… Act
• Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the… All
• Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. All
• The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready… Always Ready
• A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself. All
• Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content. Cast

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