Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all…
• Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all.…
• Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so…
• As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,…
• The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near…
• Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
• Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain…
• I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune:…
• All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
• Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
• That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts,…
• Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own…
• For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
• For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
• The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
• Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has…
• From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the…
• No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is…
• Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the…
• Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

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