Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate…
• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
• From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure;…
• The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
• When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp…
• In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full…
• Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is…
• One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another…
• Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre…
• A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
• How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.
• Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
• The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
• The intelligence of the universe is social.
• If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
• The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what…
• Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
• Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
• Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so…

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