Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by…
• Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.
• A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.
• When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of…
• Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
• The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.
• Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where…
• Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.
• Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being…
• Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you...
• All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
• Let no act be done without purpose.
• It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and…
• Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.
• If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for…
• Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.
• Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
• Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
• In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
• Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return…

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