Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
• What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
• Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
• Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this…
• The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
• Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
• Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
• When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
• The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
• Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
• Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made…
• Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,…
• Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as…
• Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it…
• Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think…
• Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
• Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains…
• It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

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