Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...
• Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad.…
• Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this…
• Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor…
• Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where…
• The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
• It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.
• The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for…
• The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within…
• All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of…
• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
• The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!
• Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what…
• To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what…
• When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to…
• Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.
• But that which is useful is the better.
• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
• That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

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