Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this…
• Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
• In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
• A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
• I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
• Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober,…
• The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
• Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments…
• Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens…
• For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember…
• Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
• Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.
• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every…
• If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in…
• God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to…
• Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.
• Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let…
• If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with…
• To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to…
• Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and…

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