Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
• Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
• Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within…
• To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
• Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
• Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
• Anger cannot be dishonest.
• To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
• Be content to seem what you really are.
• Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
• To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come…
• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after…
• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
• Each day provides its own gifts.
• There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
• Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
• Men exist for the sake of one another.
• And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

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