Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. Consider
• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. Desultory
• Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Advantage
• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you… Any
• Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change… Change
• Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised. Better
• What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne. Bear
• The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Endurance
• Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Appreciation
• You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. Carrying
• Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? Accept
• In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a… All
• Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why… Addest
• Though you break your heart, men will go on as before. Break
• That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty. Beautiful
• Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it… Blessing
• Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free… Continue
• Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? Angry
• The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and… Animal
• Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. Account

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