Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
• Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again…
• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to…
• From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on…
• How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends…
• The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
• Live each day as if it be your last.
• Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not…
• Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one…
• Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be…
• Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
• Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are…
• All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
• How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
• Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
• Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.
• The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
• Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
• There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
• How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

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