Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things…
• Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and…
• If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm…
• When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.
• Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
• Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
• A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
• Submit to the fate of your own free will.
• When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and…
• Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
• He who eats my bread, does my will.
• By a tranquil mind, I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
• Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.
• Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's…
• When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing…
• Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and…
• Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power…
• Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus....
• Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.
• It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

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