Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and…
• Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes
• Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.
• Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
• The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
• As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature…
• Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.
• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
• It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
• Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
• Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
• The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
• A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on…
• All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is…
• Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but…
• You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of…
• Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen…
• The universe is in change, life is an opinion.
• Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted…

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