Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
• Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
• Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
• Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition.…
• When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can…
• Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
• Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
• Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
• Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among…
• Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the…
• He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt…
• You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.
• No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.
• The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
• Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you…
• Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they…
• There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and…
• All is as thinking makes it so
• Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.
• How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is…

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