Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
• Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he…
• Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why…
• You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
• Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
• Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.
• A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
• In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a…
• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
• Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
• Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at…
• Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you…
• Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your…
• Can anything that is useful be accomplished without change?
• Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole!…
• Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
• Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
• Where a man can live, he can also live well.
• He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time…
• The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

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