Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
• Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
• Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
• Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have…
• Your life is what your thoughts make it.
• The best answer to anger is silence.
• Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live
• Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will never even stop to learn
• Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain
• No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms
• Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
• The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
• Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that mayhappen in…
• A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions
• For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
• A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something
• Fortune gives many too much, but none enough
• So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father
• Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

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