Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Poverty is the mother of crime.
• Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you…
• Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
• A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
• Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
• Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
• Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is…
• That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
• Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
• The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
• A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
• Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
• Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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